I'm really hoping none of this is lifted from real life kids, but at times it's too close for comfort. This book is not so much a collection of poems as promised in its description, but rather a single poem with 26 unrelated stanzas about dark, troubled, or disturbing children’s lives whose names align with the alphabet. It’s promised as “poetry about the justice and darkness of humanity,” and it reads about as deep as Ben Shapiro’s novels.

Sounds more like “An ABC of Irony and Hypocrisy” now when Peterson has a contract with The Daily Wire and shakes hands over the dinner table with Shapiro and Netanyahu who organize and/or sponsor the shelling of Palestinian children every other day. Which gives further credence as to why this person shut down their counseling practice and was let go of their professor job. Everything about it is just demented and only someone really twisted can think up something like that. It's soulless and poorly written by someone with seemingly no knowledge of nor passion for poetry; the rhyme scheme is far too inconsistent for what is supposed to be a coherent collection, there is no attempt at properly utilising meter and rhythm, other than some sporadic and poor attempts at alliteration no real poetic techniques are used.It would appear Fogra is also infatuated with Peterson's politics, which is arguably worse than sexual.

Peterson, best-selling author of 12 Rules for An Antidote to Chaos , An ABC of Childhood Tragedy unforgettably depicts the doomed and desperate lives of Adella, Bertram, Cynthia and their cohort of catastrophe. I believe it's some kind of defense mechanism: if you think the book is not good, then it means you didn't understand it, because you are not smart enough to find "the nexus between beauty and tragedy and humor". He subsequently became involved in several public debates about the bill that received significant media coverage. In 2016, Peterson released a series of videos on his YouTube channel in which he criticized the Canadian government's Bill C-16.Indeed, readers of these genres will be equally attracted to this book as readers of Peterson's work in general.

More haunting still is the realization that, though of course the cases are fictionalized and rendered in poetic form, they're inspired by Peterson's decades of clinical work. To give you an example of how thought out this was, at one point he tries to rhyme wonton with flaunting, in a short story about a mother pushing her daughter towards her passions. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.His prior books include a deep (and admittedly fairly dry) academic text on mythology and belief structures and two works that fit within (even as they rise above) the self-help genre.

But somehow these poems (they are not poems) do not say anything, do not raise any emotional response, they are baffling in their utter worthlessness. Shallow poems lacking rhythm, meter, imagery, natural rhymes, witty language, and everything else that makes poetry fun.Even though the content of his poems can be a bit disturbing, I don't think the subject is wrong in itself. If you try to read these out loud, you will struggle a bit trying to figure out what even pacing and rhythm this was supposed to have. This alphabetical collection of four sentence rhymes revels in the torture of children with no purpose or payoff.