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This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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kierscrivener's review
emotional
reflective
2.5
I read this back to back with Islands of Decolonized Love and loved this one much more, I found it deeply personal though she self reflects that she is good at utilizing sarcasm and irony to distance from her feelings. I could also feel more connected as she herself narrated these and they were poetry strong vs short stories.
My discomfort comes here in the degrading of herself throughout and the obsessive fixation on her crush, I have definitely made a spreadsheet or looked through old texts to analayze crushes but there's something about a woman in her late forties unable to go four minutes without checking her phone or panicking from a no response that is deeply unsettling. And it goes unchallenged or explored, other then her to relieve it by being funny instead of 'neurotic' which is further propensing the codependence.
I am really unpleasable, the first I disconnect with for being to bird's eye and this one because its rawness makes me uncomfortable to my core.
I really don't know as a poet myself how much raw criticism without counter is good to put into the world, perpetuating the continual dismissal of one self. But I can't say it isn't honest either.
In the end, I liked this quite a bit but can't discount my feeling of uncomfortable around it
My discomfort comes here in the degrading of herself throughout and the obsessive fixation on her crush, I have definitely made a spreadsheet or looked through old texts to analayze crushes but there's something about a woman in her late forties unable to go four minutes without checking her phone or panicking from a no response that is deeply unsettling. And it goes unchallenged or explored, other then her to relieve it by being funny instead of 'neurotic' which is further propensing the codependence.
I am really unpleasable, the first I disconnect with for being to bird's eye and this one because its rawness makes me uncomfortable to my core.
I really don't know as a poet myself how much raw criticism without counter is good to put into the world, perpetuating the continual dismissal of one self. But I can't say it isn't honest either.
In the end, I liked this quite a bit but can't discount my feeling of uncomfortable around it
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Racial slurs, and Racism
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