Book Review: Belts: A National Snapshot in Poems by Holly Hearn

Rating: 4 out of 5.


Belts: A National Snapshot in Poems by Holly Hearn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Punchy and powerful poetry.

Holly Hearn doesn’t waste a single word.

These ten short poems resonate with me.

They might be considered to be slightly rebellious by some of my American friends and downright traitorous by a few of my friends in SW Florida.

However, I feel that these are just ripples on a very deep poem and that the poet has a lot more to offer with regards to the injustices and inequalities in the western world. She obviously shares my views on the ruination of society by the current creed of greed.

Allow me to sample just one line from one of her poems:

“blaming China doesn’t feed a child”

True!

I look forward to more from this poet in the future.



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