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A review by brice_mo
American Faith by Maya C. Popa
5.0
Poetry is often difficult to recommend because it either feels inaccessible or like it is written down to the reader.
Maya Popa instead writes poems that pull readers up into them, inviting everyone in and offering the language necessary to interrogate the poems themselves.
The poems are not always transparent, but they make the act of wrestling through them satisfying.
I also really appreciate Popa's impulse to make poetry "do" something—It's not insular or abstract, and you can feel an almost missional intent to make the reader better.
Maya Popa instead writes poems that pull readers up into them, inviting everyone in and offering the language necessary to interrogate the poems themselves.
The poems are not always transparent, but they make the act of wrestling through them satisfying.
I also really appreciate Popa's impulse to make poetry "do" something—It's not insular or abstract, and you can feel an almost missional intent to make the reader better.