Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Spare, lean sparkles of poetry

Milad has a unique voice that breathes through the poetry of this first collection. Many of the poems have been carefully polished to sparkle with poetic insight. Milad's verse isn't difficult to absorb, and slightly more than half of the poems reward close reading. The other half are plain, but not prosaic or pointless. I look forward to a second collection, when the verbal rawness matures, and Milad serves up more music for the heart.