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emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
This was such a delicate and lyrical collection of poems with recurring, ephemeral images and themes to guide the reader through Hernandez Castillo’s world. We flutter across borders of many kinds, leaving much for the reader to unpack. Some poems were easier to grasp than others; most of them were incredibly abstract in nature. I was enchanted and haunted from start to end, though.
Some favorites: all the “Origin of…” poems, “Cenzontle,” “Fifteen Elegies,” “Bi-Glyph,” “Miss Lonelyhearts,” and “How to Grow the Brightest Geranium”
Read for the Sealey Challenge.
Content Warnings
Minor: Physical abuse
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