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dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
This quiet and heavy collection drips with vulnerability as Brimhall lets the reader wander through a multitude of topics and moods. I like how these poems linger, slowly drifting from one to the next. Relatedly, there was something about Brimhall’s distinct word choices that really worked, as well as the way she used enjambment to avoid ruptures in the flow she created to conjure up a complex world.
Some favorites: “Family Portrait as Lullaby,” “Lullaby on Mount Moriah,” “Love Poem without a Drop of Hyperbole,” “Chthonic Lullaby,” “If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing,” “Sleep Regression Lullaby,” “Thanatopsis,” and “From the Buried Kingdom of Together Still”
Read for the Sealey Challenge.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, and Grief
Minor: Mass/school shootings and Rape
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