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1234leah's review against another edition
3.0
It’s a mix. On the one hand the 90s sitcom misogyny, but on the other hand I’ve been thinking about “The pulley is considered civilization’s highest achievement. Icarus killed himself being lifted.” since I read it.
chillcox15's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty good, but like the title of the collection, a little too cute with the wordplay sometimes. I really loved Martinez's first collection.
megpsmit's review against another edition
2.0
I got this book for free so it is not one that I would normally pick up. It is a collection of poems which succeeded to telling a story about the authors raw experiences but the moments in which vulgarity and sex were thrown it were too much for me.
addyrunes's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.0
chovereads's review against another edition
enjoyed this. had been a long time since I read poetry and it gave me the itch again.
jnepal's review against another edition
4.0
I’d give it 5, but there are 3-4 I don’t like. Still really good, the words slide.
dannafs's review against another edition
3.0
“...and America is still afraid. Now the American Dream is to be debt-free, which I am not, nor may ever be, but at least I’m not afraid of the Russians.”
“Even if there is no I in team, there is damn sure a me that never fails to get lost in a relationship...”
“I only saw a frustrated husband, exasperated from driving around with his wife, trying, no begging, to decide on where to eat. If you have a little capital I suggest you open a restaurant called No Babe, You Decide.”
“We identify inanimate objects when we find contiguity within them because we see possessions as extensions of ourselves. There is a slaver inside me yet.”
“FOUND FRAGMENT ON AMBITION V.
if a hood is a sense of place
& a sense of place is identity
then identity is a hood & adult
hood is being insecure in any
hood a hood scares the whitest
folks why folks scared to stop
in the hood & why folks stop
wearing a hood & call it white
nationalism if i tried i would
fail to pass if i failed i would
try to pass when can i retire my
bowl stop needing to beg for my
person hood you see academically
my ghetto pass was revoked please
sir can you direct me to the window
to turn in my man card where
can i apply to enter the whiteness
protection program ive lost
my found identity is a hood
a hood is a sense of place
a place places a hood hood in us.”
“Even if there is no I in team, there is damn sure a me that never fails to get lost in a relationship...”
“I only saw a frustrated husband, exasperated from driving around with his wife, trying, no begging, to decide on where to eat. If you have a little capital I suggest you open a restaurant called No Babe, You Decide.”
“We identify inanimate objects when we find contiguity within them because we see possessions as extensions of ourselves. There is a slaver inside me yet.”
“FOUND FRAGMENT ON AMBITION V.
if a hood is a sense of place
& a sense of place is identity
then identity is a hood & adult
hood is being insecure in any
hood a hood scares the whitest
folks why folks scared to stop
in the hood & why folks stop
wearing a hood & call it white
nationalism if i tried i would
fail to pass if i failed i would
try to pass when can i retire my
bowl stop needing to beg for my
person hood you see academically
my ghetto pass was revoked please
sir can you direct me to the window
to turn in my man card where
can i apply to enter the whiteness
protection program ive lost
my found identity is a hood
a hood is a sense of place
a place places a hood hood in us.”
amma_keep_reading's review against another edition
5.0
Thoroughly enjoyed this collection. Concise. Honest. Satisfying.
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