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theroadjones's review
challenging
dark
3.75
Copying from my Goodreads: These are great poems, yeah, but obviously the racism and homophobia knock it down a star for me. I know some people get really up in arms about modern readers applying modern politics to older works. I'm not doing that. I'm not expecting a bunch of white, straight guys living in the 40s to be anything other than racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, etc. But as a modern reader I'm just not a big fan of reading slurs, y'know?
That being said "I always wanted to return to the body where I was born" just hit me right in the soul and right in the gut.
Favourite poems from the collection:
That being said "I always wanted to return to the body where I was born" just hit me right in the soul and right in the gut.
Favourite poems from the collection:
- Howl
- A Supermarket in California
- America
- In The Baggage Room At Greyhound
Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Homophobia
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