Love is a Certain Kind of Flower
by Stephanie Brooks
Published by Green Lantern Press

February Spud Pick

This month Spud Picks return with Love is a Certain Kind of Flower by Stephanie Brooks, published by Chicago’s Green Lantern Press. Brooks has put together a series of lists about Love and all its variants. Brooks’ unpunctuated, serial style devoids love of its unique romance, and the small poems become more like compilations. Brooks reveals that Love is variable; as she provocatively asks on the back cover, “When is love like one thing, when is it like something else, and why?” 

For love story cynics, this is a welcome relief to the hyper-affectionate genre. Brooks’ lists conform all of love’s meanings to manufactured expressions. Yet, romantics need not despair. Part of the ingenuity is that the reader can sift through the lists to find their own. The reader searches for its name in “Love is a proper noun” or can relate to the feelings described in “Love is moody.”

Come read Love is a Certain Kind of Flower yourself at the Small Press Library in the Annex!