A review by eggandart
Root Fractures: Poems by Diana Khoi Nguyen

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

"It is easier for a child to focus on one monster, because to know that there are multiple, in varying degrees and numerous places, can be too much to bear for one so small. And what to do with an intermittent one?" (107)

Overlaps & elisions; one event occluding/illuminating another; state violence and more state violence; sound/presence, absence/silence; sins of omission; familial violence: overt and insidious, intentional/unintentional; accretion of choices/hurts

I only read about bees now.