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A review by dfparizeau
The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I could not put this book down.
As much as I wanted to be slow and deliberate reading Brandi’s poems, I had an undeniable urge to read every last one. Even now in the wake of having finished, I feel compelled to pick the book up again.
Brandi writes with ferocious honesty and precision. They confront illness and colonial violence in a way that is searing and clear and yet manages to maintain a level of tenderness few others could manage to juggle simultaneously. “The All + Flesh” is a triumph: a book I will likely need to replace at least once in my lifetime from re-reading it until the binding falls apart.
As much as I wanted to be slow and deliberate reading Brandi’s poems, I had an undeniable urge to read every last one. Even now in the wake of having finished, I feel compelled to pick the book up again.
Brandi writes with ferocious honesty and precision. They confront illness and colonial violence in a way that is searing and clear and yet manages to maintain a level of tenderness few others could manage to juggle simultaneously. “The All + Flesh” is a triumph: a book I will likely need to replace at least once in my lifetime from re-reading it until the binding falls apart.