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A review by reba_reads_books
The Shaping of an "Angry" Black Woman by Tamara Woods
4.0
rating: 3.5 stars
I found Tamara's work through the Twitter hashtag she runs every Tuesday (#writestuff). I took my time reading her poetry collection because its themes are emotionally heavy. This collection examines social issues like sexism, racism, wage inequality, infertility, and the American political culture and familial structure. Her poetry seems to speak from her own experience as a black woman living in the lower middle class.
I was born and raised a female in the lower middle class of the American South, so I related to many of these poems on a personal level. In fact, I started reading this poetry collection while sitting alone in front of a campfire in the backwoods of Northern central Florida. It was a fitting atmosphere for the absorption of the messages in this book. I found myself highlighting many, many phrases. Then my Kindle updated this year, so I lost all of those initial notes. *sigh*
This collection loses a star and a half for some grammatical errors and redundant poetic form. I actually prefer free verse poetry to preconceived poetic forms, however, I think every free verse poem should have a reason behind every punctuation mark, capitalization, and line break. The poems in this collection stuck to a similar free verse structure throughout when I think many of them could've been improved by a varying free verse structure. Having said that, I'd still recommend this collection; its language is lovely and its message is important. Give it a go.
I found Tamara's work through the Twitter hashtag she runs every Tuesday (#writestuff). I took my time reading her poetry collection because its themes are emotionally heavy. This collection examines social issues like sexism, racism, wage inequality, infertility, and the American political culture and familial structure. Her poetry seems to speak from her own experience as a black woman living in the lower middle class.
I was born and raised a female in the lower middle class of the American South, so I related to many of these poems on a personal level. In fact, I started reading this poetry collection while sitting alone in front of a campfire in the backwoods of Northern central Florida. It was a fitting atmosphere for the absorption of the messages in this book. I found myself highlighting many, many phrases. Then my Kindle updated this year, so I lost all of those initial notes. *sigh*
This collection loses a star and a half for some grammatical errors and redundant poetic form. I actually prefer free verse poetry to preconceived poetic forms, however, I think every free verse poem should have a reason behind every punctuation mark, capitalization, and line break. The poems in this collection stuck to a similar free verse structure throughout when I think many of them could've been improved by a varying free verse structure. Having said that, I'd still recommend this collection; its language is lovely and its message is important. Give it a go.