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A review by kawai
Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim, 2009 by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
3.0
I'm not the best poetry reader; I still have a lot to learn about how to approach different types of poems, how to read between the lines, ask the right questions about the poet's intentions, etc. Part of me thinks that shouldn't be my job--i.e. "good" poetry shouldn't require me to learn a lot of things just to figure out whether I like it or not--but most of me realizes that's laziness on my part, and the reality is that I have to do more work with most poetry I read.
Having said all of that, this is an anthology, so the reader is dealing with varied voices and subjects, which makes the work of deciding some sort of arbitrary value to the work that much harder. Suffice it to say that many of the poems resonated with me, whether dealing in narrative style with Hawai'i or offering symbolic imagery of native Alaska.
One to return to down the line, to see what I else I can learn.
Having said all of that, this is an anthology, so the reader is dealing with varied voices and subjects, which makes the work of deciding some sort of arbitrary value to the work that much harder. Suffice it to say that many of the poems resonated with me, whether dealing in narrative style with Hawai'i or offering symbolic imagery of native Alaska.
One to return to down the line, to see what I else I can learn.