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The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems by Nicole Sealey

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challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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5.0

Lovely, fierce, lonely in the way of the body. The exploration of mortality, health, and pain feels almost agonizingly au courant, a trip the through pain and troubled health with which so many of us are familiar. Race and gender and privilege are studied (see the first Legendary for a magnificent example), and every poem stresses that which makes us human.

Oh, and there are two poems about Clue, and they are a delight.
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