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The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat
This haunting collection is as wide and capacious as the West itself.
94 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2022
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September 12, 2023
This collection started off strong. The author clearly has a tight control over language, sounds and the musicality of their work. At times it felt like a country music ballad. It read as edgy pastoral with sharp imagery. Especially in the first section.
The prose poem sectional was also very smart and the narrative stayed strong. I don’t typically like prose poems, so I was pleasantly surprised by how drawn to them I was.
I do feel by the end the author lost the thread a little and the last few poems felt deeply disconnected from the rest of the collection. This might be a me thing as the poems veered into pandemic poetry and Black Lives Matter in a way that felt tossed in for the sake of it.
That being said, the craft level was high throughout and I genuinely enjoyed these poems and look forward to this authors future work.
The prose poem sectional was also very smart and the narrative stayed strong. I don’t typically like prose poems, so I was pleasantly surprised by how drawn to them I was.
I do feel by the end the author lost the thread a little and the last few poems felt deeply disconnected from the rest of the collection. This might be a me thing as the poems veered into pandemic poetry and Black Lives Matter in a way that felt tossed in for the sake of it.
That being said, the craft level was high throughout and I genuinely enjoyed these poems and look forward to this authors future work.
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