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A review by chaostalking
Look by Solmaz Sharif
3.0
January wrap-up: https://youtu.be/qjZkhHZoVwM
There are some wonderful poems in here, but overall I found this collection to be somewhat dull at times, and overly abstract at others. The central conceit of the book—to take words and phrases from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms in order to highlight the dehumanization present in much of our military language, and in such a way that it re-humanizes the atrocities of war—is a brilliant one, though, so if you're at all interested, go for it.
There are some wonderful poems in here, but overall I found this collection to be somewhat dull at times, and overly abstract at others. The central conceit of the book—to take words and phrases from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms in order to highlight the dehumanization present in much of our military language, and in such a way that it re-humanizes the atrocities of war—is a brilliant one, though, so if you're at all interested, go for it.