A review by zarvindale
Meditations of a Beast by Kristine Ong Muslim

3.0

I adore Kristine Ong Muslim’s manner of sorting her poems through sections. Among her poetry collections, this is probably the most cohesive. It’s closer to Grim Series in themes, and to Black Arcadia in structure. The first section is made up of poems that borrow the lines of the poems that preceded them, while the third section sticks to a central image, which is dolls. A lot of horrifying poems and flash fictions are present here, a handful of which might linger on me for a little while. Cohesion, however, doesn’t automatically equate to impact for me.