Mario often feels like a poem in motion, and the cheerful pinball in the plumber's workwear will always linger in a colorful environment. In 1990's "Super Mario World", he specialized in the mission of benevolent, crisscrossing dinosaurs to save Yoshi's good friends from the malicious attacks of Bowser. Thirty years since its release, strategy guides and walkthroughs have gone through each pixel to unlock the secrets of Super Mario World. However, no one has written anything like Stephen Sexton's debut album, "If All The World And Love Were Young". Such a lightweight volume makes Yoshi & # 39; s House a boarding place for unforgettable memories, imagination and gastrointestinal pain.
Sexton was only 9 years old when he grew up in Belfast in the mid-1990s, and his mother was diagnosed with cancer, which triggered the cycle of treatment, recovery and relapse, understandably Subverted the family's usual habits. Like many children of his age, Sexton was playing Super Nintendo at the time. In his introductory speech, he pointed out that "If all the world and love were young", the catalyst was a text snapshot of that era, and a photo taken by Sexton's mother was lured into the family's old fashioned TV "Cross-legged meditator" focused on his console. When everything suddenly becomes so uncertain, who can blame him for seeking escape?
Sexton's 120-page cycle of poetry is a memory and expansion, starting with that photo, depicting the unstable period of his mother's illness, through the stages of his favorite game. It's a juxtaposition with a ridiculous core inside-the meditation on death takes place in the form of a Chocolate Island block-but Sexton is completely outspoken. There is nothing easier than to equate the ghosts of the past with the soul floating around the donut haunted house or his avatar to easily jump into the pipe to escape the reality. Thankfully, Dr. Mario did not shout. Instead, his mother's diagnosis was troublingly identified as "dividing and burring cells" and required exposure to "poisons" to stop its development.
