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dead_vole_jumpscare's review
3.5
felt like a lot of it was so layered that i got lost very often, but the narrative and story elements were very good and something i didn't know about before
lyndsaydurbs's review
5.0
This was heartbreakingly beautiful. The poems were composed very nicely and I really enjoyed the lyrical flow to a lot of them.
They contained a fantastic use of direct quotes from documents while still being surrounded/followed by the lines written from Der Vang.
I was certainly unaware of what Yellow Rain was and the story of the Hmong people during the Vietnam/Cold War. I am just fairly unaware of a lot of historical events and was not aware of the full extent of Bio/Chemical Warfare that was “occurring” in this time.
My one complaint, which is not a complaint on the actual poems, is that the ebook does not get all of the imagery that I imagine is in the physical copy. When encountering the ebook’s first page with specific sizing, I was unable to meet the specifications within the Kindle App I was reading on. This made some poems a little harder to follow and understand. I had expected something similar to the “compositions” where they are basically images of the works and not direct text translations.
They contained a fantastic use of direct quotes from documents while still being surrounded/followed by the lines written from Der Vang.
I was certainly unaware of what Yellow Rain was and the story of the Hmong people during the Vietnam/Cold War. I am just fairly unaware of a lot of historical events and was not aware of the full extent of Bio/Chemical Warfare that was “occurring” in this time.
My one complaint, which is not a complaint on the actual poems, is that the ebook does not get all of the imagery that I imagine is in the physical copy. When encountering the ebook’s first page with specific sizing, I was unable to meet the specifications within the Kindle App I was reading on. This made some poems a little harder to follow and understand. I had expected something similar to the “compositions” where they are basically images of the works and not direct text translations.
channilovesreading's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
3.75
tacomaven's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Wow wish I could give it more stars. Disturbing info beautifully written.