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A review by kenbooky
Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School by Maggie Anderson, Maggie Anderson
3.0
Book 2 for Sealy poetry book challenge for all of August.
I wanted to give this a five! Everything about this book I was expected to love, however, there were a handful of poems from male writers wrote totally gross love letters to their former teachers which pissed me right off. One poem went on and on about her long golden hair and how he wished to braid it. I was struck with how horribly crass some of the poems like that were and then I’d flip to a five line him dinger where I felt super seen and my heart hurt all over for what my chosen career path continues to do to young hopefuls. Audre Lorde has an amazing line in here where she says : it deadens us, this career.
I wanted to give this a five! Everything about this book I was expected to love, however, there were a handful of poems from male writers wrote totally gross love letters to their former teachers which pissed me right off. One poem went on and on about her long golden hair and how he wished to braid it. I was struck with how horribly crass some of the poems like that were and then I’d flip to a five line him dinger where I felt super seen and my heart hurt all over for what my chosen career path continues to do to young hopefuls. Audre Lorde has an amazing line in here where she says : it deadens us, this career.