Faye Davis reviews John's poetry collection No Working Title, praising how his raw, graphic work tackles topics men rarely discuss openly. She found the unsanitized language and heavy subject matter forced her to confront her own trauma, describing it as a survivor-to-survivor creation that's both challenging and deeply helpful.
Hey, John. So when I was on Instagram one day, I found your awesome Instagram. And I saw some of the poems in there. And at first, I was like, oh, he found those on the internet. And then I realized they were from you. And I was really surprised to see that from someone, because you don't see that from men, really. But no one talks about it. And men talk about it even less. It's one of those things, and it sucks. But reading through this book, and some of it's really graphic to me. Some of it's really heavy. And I was like, no, but this is real, and you need to face this. And it's something that challenged me with my own trauma. I think the thing that made me really, really the most out of it was the way the poems are worded to be so real. There's no sugar, there's no nothing. Yeah, it was really awesome. It really helped. It's awesome. It's challenging. It's a bit graphic. It's heavy. But I feel like it's a book written for survivors by survivors, and that kind of media is always going to be more intense.
