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A review by natbaldino
Anybody: Poems by Ari Banias
5.0
First I will say that "recognition is the misrecognition you can bear" has always been my mantra for all creative and theoretical work, so I loved that A.B. feels that too.
Some favorites include "Narrative," "On Pockets," the end of "An Arrow." Also "Enough" and "A Version"
"Prairie Restoration Project" hit home on the loneliness of the Midwest, and "To The God of Sobriety" has the perfect sense of panic ("those twisty-ties their future lives!").
"Double Mastectomy," "The Hole" and the ending lines to "The Men" absolutely gutted me (and might be very much an IYKYK, I wonder how cis people feel reading it):
"what isn't there. Isn't there
a sweetness to it."
That being the end line to a poem about transness, gah.
Some favorites include "Narrative," "On Pockets," the end of "An Arrow." Also "Enough" and "A Version"
"Prairie Restoration Project" hit home on the loneliness of the Midwest, and "To The God of Sobriety" has the perfect sense of panic ("those twisty-ties their future lives!").
"Double Mastectomy," "The Hole" and the ending lines to "The Men" absolutely gutted me (and might be very much an IYKYK, I wonder how cis people feel reading it):
"what isn't there. Isn't there
a sweetness to it."
That being the end line to a poem about transness, gah.