Part of review for "the lake has no saint"

The varied form that the poems take is intriguing.  The poet has changed how a reader looks at a poem.  The definition of poetry is skewed in this collection due to the lack of fundamental sentence structure in every poem.  For example, in “when after you have exhausted the possibilities”, there is one sentence for the entire poem with the period being at the very end.  This is striking.  Obviously, there are fragments included that change how the poem is read aloud or seen on the page.  Without separate sentences or pauses the poem is read with more force, perhaps faster.  Many of the poems act this way.  The form influences how the poem is read and where the focus is for the subject at hand.  “Not” is repeated many times, created a friction for the speaker of the poem.  “i will not paint the new house blue” is repeated numerous times creating force and emphasis there. 

            The lack of capitalization also lends itself to the defacing fundamentals of writing.  Why not capitalize?  This is included in every poem.  Even states are not justly capitalized.  This could be done to make all words equal, not more important than another and the focus is put on the poem itself.  (This then, could be said of gender, the topic at hand; all people are equal.)  Or, simply, it could be the stylistic choice of the writer.