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mattleesharp's review
3.0
Typical of most poetry in translation, you definitely get the feeling that you're missing important pieces of information in this collection. There are some interesting thoughts on death and some interesting imagery surrounding it, particularly of a laughing corpse under a neon light. But many of these poems just don't seem to say much at all. Along with the throughline of death and mortality, there were a lot of poems that referenced animals to no real end. They just kind of felt like half thought out ideas. I'd definitely like to read more of Salamun to see if the interesting bits of this collection fit into some larger theme in his work though.
And mad props to Black Ocean for consistently putting out this kind of interesting work we might not have access to otherwise.
And mad props to Black Ocean for consistently putting out this kind of interesting work we might not have access to otherwise.
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