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gagne's review
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
2.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Minor: Terminal illness and Cancer
US-Vietnam war, US imperialismsavaging's review
3.0
I love it when Alice Notley gets specific and clear. I love her reflecting on that embarrassing thing she said when she was drunk, or condemning war, or writing a mythic journey through the underworld that takes place in subway tunnels. There is nothing better than those poems. I was a little sad to find so much of her poetry here is vague, flying away at every angle, confusing. I think I respect her wild-dreaming process, but the poems I most love are her most grounded.
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