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laraamaee's review against another edition
4.0
Got this in Bookmarks the socialist bookshop for £3 & actually read all the way through it...it's a genuinely diverse collection of American poets from 1940s-80s. Some poems were disturbing, some were funny, some were powerful & angry or devastating, some depicted queer love so incredibly well I felt my chest ache. Not all of them were outstanding, hence the four stars out of five, but I wouldn't expect that from a large collection. There is a powerful sense of unity & urgency amongst these pages, especially considering the publication time (1988) & all that was happening then. I enjoyed reading some writers I already knew, and discovering new ones.
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