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chillcox15's review
4.0
I loved Dennigan’s new book so much I went back to read her first collection as soon as I could. This one starts out just as strong; the first section absolutely knocks me out, including “Eleven Thousand and One,” the best poem in the collection without a doubt, in spite of (or perhaps because of) its elitist overtones. The second section consists of one longer poem, “The Feeling of the World As a Bounded Whale Is the Mystical” which I was not feeling as much. The collection struggled to reach the heights of the first section after that, but it turned in some quality work throughout. I probably wouldn’t start here, but it’s enough to satisfy my Dennigan itch.
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