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Advantages of Being Evergreen by Oliver Baez Bendorf

jhigginbottom's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Really hard-hitting. I like his style. 

aibautista21's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

scrow1022's review against another edition

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5.0

Takes my breath away - while also giving me room to breathe. Insistence on the body - then turns it inside out. Will be reading his first collection and returning to this one often.

kebpoet's review

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challenging reflective medium-paced

4.25

aristosakaion's review against another edition

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3.0

bedridden read #02!! discovered oliver's craft on a whim. while some poems i think left me a little empty-headed, others were immaculate. loved how solemn the collection is, tender and bathed in witchlight

sghuerta's review against another edition

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5.0

This is my favorite poetry collection I've read this year. I'm incredibly bad at writing reviews but this was everything I needed to read right now. Poems like "Elegy" and "My Body the Haunted House" will definitely stick with me for awhile. Shout out to the person at Malvern Books who recommended this book to me, and to Poem-A-Day for first introducing me to the amazing work of Oliver Baez Bendorf!

ebatchelder's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

smallgourd's review against another edition

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challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

fschulenberg's review against another edition

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emotional tense fast-paced

3.75

The author is from kalamzoo (woo woo!). 

"I thought I wanted to be everything all at once. Poet that sits on a bucket in the dunes and the bucket too."

I liked it. It's not super linear.

gabrieh's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0