Letters to Kurt

Great read. ( )

Letters to Kurt is not a bad effort--it's just not particularly great. Erlandson admits to once being the lover of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain future wife Courtney Love and it seems as if he feels some distance from the now departed songwriter. Whether or not it's the sense of coming in second in that competition his former liaison does seem to inform this work. I agree that some of these prose poems are kind of uneven. He can't quite seem to love or altogether hate his rival and that doesn't lift the book to greater heights. ( )

Not all ramblings are poetry which can often be more thereputic to the writer than interesting to the reader. I have and read several books on Kurt Cobain and while there is the Nirvana/Hole connection some of the writings are a bland OK but most are not worth the effort to analyize the thought process. Perhaps it's just the punk setting or the adolesence of the writer. I'm not seeing too many positive reviews. ( )

I tried to like this one, I really did. I tend to like poetry in most forms, and essays, but Letters to Kurt felt like wordplay for the sake of wordplay. It wasn't horrible, but I didn't find myself enjoying it either; just forcing myself to get through it. ( )

I'm not an avid reader of poetry, but I've perused enough writers to say this is unlike any I've read. For whatever reason the author did the writings, I give credit to him and anyone who puts thought to paper - surely someone (besides the author) may benefit from it. ( )