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casparb's review
I was going to do some cheekiness of a one line review because it's blink-and-you'll-miss-it fast but sadly it's the other type of fasting.
She's really really good1!!! I'm going to find more xoxo
(immediately)
She's really really good1!!! I'm going to find more xoxo
(immediately)
benplatt's review
4.0
A strong collection of Graham's that really effectively uses her fairly established formal style to evoke disintegration, ruin, and dissolving boundaries, whether ecological, bodily, or technological. The poems on death in particular have a really compelling tension between the speaker wanting to remain frozen in time, to reach back to the moment of life, but Graham's syntax and composition really drive home the relentless, rapid movement of time forward, leaving one frantically grasping at what's left. She gets a bit too deep into her own wordplay at times, drawing associative connections that feel more like purely wordplay for the sake of it, but I liked the collection overall enough that it didn't rub me the wrong way - if you can 't do that in poetry, where can you do it
novelesque_life's review
2.0
Rating: 2 STARS
2017; Ecco/HarperCollins
(Review Not on Blog)
I cannot get into this poetry style so it was hard for me to read. I love free style and storytelling but this was hard to feel any emotion to.
***I received an eARC from EDELWEISS***
2017; Ecco/HarperCollins
(Review Not on Blog)
I cannot get into this poetry style so it was hard for me to read. I love free style and storytelling but this was hard to feel any emotion to.
***I received an eARC from EDELWEISS***
skitch41's review against another edition
1.0
This year I have been on a bit of a poetry kick, trying to immerse myself in this difficult genre. I have read some really good collections and some okay ones, but I hadn’t read one that I actively disliked. Until this collection that is. For a genre that oftentimes reads very quick, Ms. Graham’s poetry is incredibly long. Each poem could be several pages long with crap-ton of words on each page, which is unusual compared to other collections I have read so far. Now, this in and of itself wouldn’t be bad if the poems had some discernible them or purpose. But Ms. Graham’s doesn’t appear to have any. Each poem bounces from one subject to another, sometimes very quickly, giving me a sense of thematic whiplash. And there appears to be no discernible poetic style in these poems other than to be really long. The result is an alphabet soup of words that has no clear meaning or purpose. Other, more serious poetry readers may see something in this collection to enjoy, but I did not.
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