A review by imiji
Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

i found it physically impossible to read this in one sitting as i'd been originally planning to because every two poems or so i needed to put the book down to just wheeze a little bit like somebody had kicked me directly in the stomach. especially the first third or so is just FURIOUS -- not that its main modality is anger necessarily but that the way it moves just feels charged with roiling energy. the way that this book makes images orbit each other like planets in a solar system all tugging on each other gravitationally is astounding. i will be thinking about "rat among the pines" for a very long time.