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sasha_hurwitz's review against another edition
4.0
I thought this book was dense and enlivened by the senses of a poet who is keenly aware of the world around him, most definitely a consequence of the trauma that him and his family endured. He constantly pushes the reader out of their comfort zone to read with full concentration so as not to miss the beauty of his carefully chosen images and metaphors. It took me a lot of time to parse through the language, then imagine the scenes witnessed by Prior or accounted to him by his grandparents and thereby translated for us. It will be one of those books I keep coming back to in order to understand better.
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