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taylorthiel's review
5.0
(If you’re wondering why I’m reading poetry book after poetry book it’s bc I now work for Poetry Daily and have access to a storage room of free ARCS that I literally have to read)
This is a biting collection that I wish was longer. Eco-urban poetry that is meant to make you think. New taxonomies discovered/created and old ones examined. This poetry is as smart as it is beautiful. Hoo’s careful attention to alliteration/assonance was particularly masterful.
This is a biting collection that I wish was longer. Eco-urban poetry that is meant to make you think. New taxonomies discovered/created and old ones examined. This poetry is as smart as it is beautiful. Hoo’s careful attention to alliteration/assonance was particularly masterful.
greeniezona's review
reflective
4.25
When I decided I needed to pick up Rage Hezekiah's new book, Yearn, I decided I might as well peruse Diode Editions for other works, and I got pulled in by this amazing cover! Add in that Hoo is from Singapore, which is a country I have not yet read for the Read the World challenge, and I OBVIOUSLY had to buy it, right?
The colonization of Singapore, particularly of its flora and fauna is primarily the subject of this collection. Hoo plays with language and with natural history and with cultural borrowings, overlaps, and misunderstandings. My favorite poem was the alliterative "Cicada Rhythms" that did all of these things at once:
The colonization of Singapore, particularly of its flora and fauna is primarily the subject of this collection. Hoo plays with language and with natural history and with cultural borrowings, overlaps, and misunderstandings. My favorite poem was the alliterative "Cicada Rhythms" that did all of these things at once:
Rapaciously industrialized raspberries
internalize rapidities, infrastruct rustic.
Rapidizers refuse. Island rapidizing
insurrects rhapsodizing, instils rapt idyllizing.
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