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A review by cloudslikethis
Village Prodigies by Rodney Jones
3.0
Thanks to NetGalley for providing with an arc of this book.
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I need to unpack this one a bit. It was both hard and rewarding to read such a narrative poetry collection. Hard because I wanted to read slowly and relish the poems but if I read too slow I would forget the characters. It covered a lot of time in this town of Cold Springs and it was great to see the change in the town and in the characters but because of the fragmented and poetic nature of the pieces it felt like I was missing out on a lot of information. I feel like it would've work better if either it was made more prose like and historical or was shortened and broken into more sizable and understandable sections.
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I need to unpack this one a bit. It was both hard and rewarding to read such a narrative poetry collection. Hard because I wanted to read slowly and relish the poems but if I read too slow I would forget the characters. It covered a lot of time in this town of Cold Springs and it was great to see the change in the town and in the characters but because of the fragmented and poetic nature of the pieces it felt like I was missing out on a lot of information. I feel like it would've work better if either it was made more prose like and historical or was shortened and broken into more sizable and understandable sections.