Jacob Jones's Poetry Genuinely Puzzles Me

Join Ellipsus for free → https://ellipsus.app/RD to keep your writing collaborative, private, and pro-human. Earlier this year, YouTuber Jacob Jones released a book of poetry titled poems to read while smoking cigarettes. According to the Amazon listing and the book's own back cover, the poems in the collection aren't any good. They're just poems to read while smoking cigarettes. But is that really the case? Is there more to it than that? Join me in this video essay as we discuss Jones's poetry, what works, what doesn't, and what we can learn from it. Merch: https://roughest-drafts-shop.fourthwa... Patreon:   / roughestdrafts   Instagram:   / roughestdrafts99   Twitter:   / roughestdrafts   Email: jrwrites1999@gmail.com P.O. Box 901989 Sandy, UT 84090 0:00 Intro 4:51 Humor and Repetition 11:37 Metatextuality 15:11 My Favorites 26:24 Overall Thoughts #books #booktok #creativewriting #literature #writing #reading #literaryanalysis #videoessay #poetry #poetrytok #poetryanalysis #poemreading #poem #poems #reading #bookreview #bookreviews #jacobjones