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gar42's review
dark
funny
fast-paced
4.0
A book of poems about all things pig. I love the formal play, the wide association of pigs and pig topics, and the pig as an anchor for the collection. While it’s fun at times, like dancing at a club, it’s also deeply serious and contemplative, writing praise poems to Miss Piggy and also poems considering the similar treatments of Jews and pigs. A collection about queerness, Jewishness, animalness, and humanness.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Antisemitism, Sexual content, and Animal death
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Blood, Mass/school shootings, and Murder
laurelthebooks's review
challenging
reflective
I didn't expect to deeply contemplate the many facets of the word, animal, and connotation of 'pig', but I suppose that only speaks in favor of Sax's poetry collection as that was indeed what I ended up doing. There's a near viscous quality to their writing that mires you as the reader into the poetry. Was reading this pleasant? Hmmmm...no. Was it fascinating and engrossing? Absolutely.
If you're one for visceral description and uncomfortable contemplation over a wide breath of tangential topics this will be in your wheelhouse. I know there are specific sections of poems that I rather want embeded in my brain although my personal enjoyment of the individual poems varied wildly throughout the collection.
Thank you to NetGalley for the advance digital copy to review.
If you're one for visceral description and uncomfortable contemplation over a wide breath of tangential topics this will be in your wheelhouse. I know there are specific sections of poems that I rather want embeded in my brain although my personal enjoyment of the individual poems varied wildly throughout the collection.
Thank you to NetGalley for the advance digital copy to review.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Sexual content
abbylw's review
challenging
funny
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I am a huge admirer of sam sax’s poetry, so I went into reading their new collection “pig” with high expectations. They smashed them. This collection uses pigs of all kinds — from Mrs. Piggy to 30-50 feral hogs to fetishwear/ BDSM — to explore the body, desire& consumption, Judaism and anti-capitalism and reveal truths about what it is to be human. Sax’s writing is masterful; they know how to play with form and bend language in witty, surprising ways. I am sure will be returning to this collection again and will definitely be purchasing when it is released. Many thanks NetGalley and Scribner for the advance copy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Homophobia and Sexual content
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