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4.0
What is strange about this volume is that the voice in these poems moves around so much. The format of the book is that it contains fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution performed in the United States. But there is no consistency in the point of view or even the tone these take, so that one is left not with any burning indignation about the wrongness of capital punishment (its wrongness is more or less taken for granted) but rather with a kind of disgust and shame at how thoroughly embedded in American culture execution has been.
nick_jenkins's review
4.0
What is strange about this volume is that the voice in these poems moves around so much. The format of the book is that it contains fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution performed in the United States. But there is no consistency in the point of view or even the tone these take, so that one is left not with any burning indignation about the wrongness of capital punishment (its wrongness is more or less taken for granted) but rather with a kind of disgust and shame at how thoroughly embedded in American culture execution has been.
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