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sara_shocks's review against another edition
5.0
5/5 stars
Outstanding poetry collection. Favorite poems: "And," "Clue," "imagine sisyphus happy" & "underperforming sonnet overperforming"
Another I'll have to add to the purchase list.
Outstanding poetry collection. Favorite poems: "And," "Clue," "imagine sisyphus happy" & "underperforming sonnet overperforming"
Another I'll have to add to the purchase list.
readmoreyall's review against another edition
5.0
Favorite poems: a violence, Virginia is for lovers, a cento for the night I said I love you, object permanence.
chillcox15's review against another edition
5.0
Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beast is poetry at its most comfortably playful. What I mean by that is that Sealey's poems abound in verbal wit and conceptual humors (look to her poem about Brad Pitt, which runs wild with Pitt-based punnery) without crossing over to outright schmaltz or eye-rolling rhymericks and their ilk. An all-around accessible and emotionally diverse collection of glittering verse.
tealeafbooks's review
4.0
Note: This book has cover art. For some reason, Goodreads doesn't have it...
jesshooves's review against another edition
Lines from the poem “in defense of candelabra with heads”...
“A hundred years from now...
May someone happen upon the question
in question. May that lucky someone be black
and so far removed from the word lynch
that she be dumbfounded by its meaning.
May her imagination, not her memory, run wild.”
“A hundred years from now...
May someone happen upon the question
in question. May that lucky someone be black
and so far removed from the word lynch
that she be dumbfounded by its meaning.
May her imagination, not her memory, run wild.”