A review by dgrachel
Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi

emotional sad slow-paced

3.5

This is a powerful, moving collection of poems written early in the COVID 19 pandemic. Most deal with the fear, isolation, and adjustment to the "new normal", but there are others that touch on subjects such as immigration and child sexual abuse by Catholic priests. I have to say I wasn't expecting that one in this collection and I personally wish it hadn't been included. These are well written, but there are a handful of poems where there appear to be typos, duplicated words, or incorrect words. It's hard to tell for sure with poetry, but whether they were intentional or accidental, they muddled the poems disrupted the rhythm. Overall, though, this is a solid collection, even if I have confirmed that it is, in fact, too soon for me to be reading serious pandemic writing.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual violence

There is one poem that deals with sexual abuse by a Catholic priest.