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zarvindale's review
2.0
It is through this poetry collection that I discovered in myself my dislike for poems (and, as a result, poets) that dramatize world issues and personal trauma. Violence is brimming in this fourth book by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, and the treatment of that violence is far from sensitive as we’d expect nowadays. The clichés here are tired, and so are the forced attempts at displaying knowledge and awareness of tension and unrest as the whole world grapples with a crisis. The epilogue is cute; the rest is a letdown.
aristosakaion's review
3.0
"your honor, i never thought / once upon a time belonged to me, / my desire contingent only / on rightness of man and place. / I thought i wanted nothing more / than to be wanted." there are duds, but i still really liked it
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