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Elephant Rocks by Kay Ryan

btmarino84's review

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5.0

So often when I'm reading a book of poems, I'll bookmark or fold over a page of my particular favorite poems. At some point I realized that fully 85% or more of the pages in this book were folded over.

I really like how "easy" her style is. For someone still new to poetry it never felt particularly difficult to grasp. But there is so much musicality and meter and interesting rhyme schemes going on, and that "simplicity" is used to explore very complex depths.

biglibraryenergy's review

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lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

lpreadstoo's review

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read it.

readingwithk's review

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2.0

The poems were quite elevated and the word choices were something I could appreciate. However, not a single poem made me feel like I could connect to it and not a single poem gave me any kind of emotional response.

jamiereadthis's review against another edition

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4.0

Special recognition for “Why Isn’t It All More Marked” and “Insult.”

This is not
a random fracture
that would have happened
to any leg out there;
this was a conscious unkindness.

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