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dfram's review
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.25
read this anthology to annotate it for a friend’s birthday! they loved it and i enjoyed the collection. so many deep poems and some silly ones. i laughed and enjoyed the variety in poets / styles.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Confinement
aeudaimonia's review
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
4 stars feels appropriate for a poetry anthology. The book includes poems from a wide variety of cultures, time periods, and languages (all, however, are given in English). Some, of course, I hated, but many more I loved: they're united by topic only, not by skill. Speaking of topic, my only complaint is that the poems are arranged by type of insect: bees and ants (the workers), spiders (the spinners), flies and gnats (pests), etc etc. I was sometimes weary reading 20 poems in a row about a single insect or two; I'd have liked it better if they were ordered alphabetically or chronologically by author to lend at least the illusion of variety. All things considered, however, a delightful little book and a great start for anyone who wants to read poetry but doesn't necessarily have the stamina to commit to a single poet's collection.
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