An ABC of Childhood Tragedy: Volume 1

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Most of the poems in this book are just like this one, but some of them are more uncomfortable, given the topics they deal with. I don't think they are funny, and I certainly think they aren't deep. In the promotional video for this book, Peterson says that his goal was to "investigate the nexus between beauty and tragedy and humor". He makes equivalent claims about his other, more serious books. 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". Even though the content of his poems can be a bit disturbing, I don't think the subject is wrong in itself. There are lots of books, even intended for children (this one isn't, I think), that deal with the subject of abuse: Matilda was abused by her parents; Harry Potter by his uncle, aunt and cousin; the Baudelaire orphans by Count Olaf and his henchmen; and so on. Each verse has a simple rhyme pattern and uses lots of alliteration. Many of the rhymes don't really work. Like he rhymes "own/groaned" "them/men". Some nice word choices with the alliterations to demonstrate a large vocabulary.

Indeed, readers of these genres will be equally attracted to this book as readers of Peterson's work in general. I've long argued that there is great psychological benefit in studying horror fiction (and related topics, including the darkest case studies in psychology or the most tragic moments in history) because they prepare us psychologically for the often-terrifying reality of the world in which we live, and remind us to be grateful when the world is anything but horrible. This book seems to come from a similar idea, and I think it should be applauded for its effort.

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And if you can look past the very shallow conservative politics and unfunny writing, the actual poetry itself is atrocious. 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. But the rhyming and meter of it is way off. 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 isn't necessarily what readers have come to expect from Jordan Peterson's work. 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. This is something entirely different: a short collection of twenty-six brief poems, each of which is accompanied by an illustration by Juliette Fogra. Wives, ask your husbands: What bothered you more, the terrible prose, the poor centering, the general sense of gesture without meaning, or the fact that the author is a bigot who talks like Kermit the Frog? (It’s OK, you can be honest.)

This may be one of the worst books I've ever read. 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. I also don't care -at least, not in regards to this book- about Peterson's ideology or questionable ideas about parenting. There are way better poets with way worse ideas. Here, I just want to talk about the quality of Peterson's writing. Let's consider one of the most anodyne poems in his book: Thus Spoke Zarathustra with Jordan B Peterson Lecture Foreword: Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra English Translation The subject matter itself is vile, homophobic, misogynistic and incredibly offensive. He describes this work as something he wrote to 'let off steam' while working with patients who were suffering as the result of these particular traumas which feels incredibly disrespectful. The point I believe, is that awful things happen, and Dr. Peterson has seen it. He is known to wax positively on Piaget, but where Piaget ends, things happen - and well -by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Constance Garnett (translator), Helen Zimmern, Jordan B. Peterson, and Leon Trost The RRP is the suggested or Recommended Retail Price of a product, set by the publisher or manufacturer. Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. In 1998, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor. He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999, a work in which examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and motivation for genocide. Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich'in K'yuu Gwiidandài' Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land This alphabetical collection of four sentence rhymes revels in the torture of children with no purpose or payoff. The author-- a licensed psychologist from clown college-- clearly has a disdain for his patients, particularly youths, and secretly practices on the belief that they deserve the abuse they have endured. Peterson is a narcissist with aspirations of eugenics.