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Love Cake by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

ekimball's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.5

nagev's review

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medium-paced

4.25


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theoceanisgay's review

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3.0

I really liked some of these poems but there was a lot of overly familiar imagery. Also, why does she use so much AAVE when she’s a Tamil and white person from Worcester Mass?

awkwardreader13's review

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3.0

3.75

I liked that the writing style was more raw and straightforward; not so much bullshit, not flimsy and vague as poetry can be (although I enjoy that style as well sometimes)
There was raw beauty and power and freedom and life in these poems, and I enjoyed it
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