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htoo's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Must read collection of "sonnets" which forces one to reflect on the Trump era. While a couple of the poems didn't work for me, the vast majority of them hits home.
meruoss's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A collection I will be rereading for sure
redinteeth's review against another edition
The word choice in this book is phenomenal
I am a sucker for alliteration and connsonation
I am a sucker for alliteration and connsonation
chillcox15's review against another edition
5.0
Terrance Hayes continues to be at the top of his game, continues to be one of the best American poets alive or dead.
gregory_glover's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.5
Challenging is an understatement. Beautiful, poignant, ugly, graphic, terrible, haunting, brilliant,….. I have to come back to it. Maybe it should be required reading for the 4th of July. (Is “patriotic” too loaded a term for what Hayes is doing? It is a tortured love of country, for sure.) I’m sure I didn’t grasp even half of it. To take the sonnet (?) form for this content is a bold choice, as is the traditional first line index rather than individual titles or even numbers to define discrete poems. A masterpiece (would Hayes allow the word?) of contemporary poetry and literature more broadly.
willthesecond's review against another edition
5.0
terrence hays does some magical and delicious things with language and rhythm
in this. it sounds like rap album of the year with a fee diss tracks that penetrate so deeply
in this. it sounds like rap album of the year with a fee diss tracks that penetrate so deeply