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A New Language for Falling Out of Love by Meghan Privitello

snowmaiden's review

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3.0

Somehow I bought this without realizing it was a book of prose poems, which I normally don’t enjoy at all. The fact that I actually enjoyed some of these is a sign that it’s probably pretty good! I’ll pass this book along to someone who’ll be able to get more out of it than I did.

pyrrhicspondee's review against another edition

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4.0

The first at least 8 poems in this book are perfect. Perfect after perfect after perfect. All dense prose poems that operate almost wholly on juxtaposition (a term I taught my creative writing kids--and which they thought I made up) and every one clicks. My only small complaint is that after 2/3 of a book of dense prose poems, my brain kind of tapped out and stopped wanting to make connections.
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