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astrangewind's review
challenging
dark
fast-paced
4.25
These poems are a whirlwind. The quirky, bloody imagery - bees like cigarette butts, the sun spiraling down - is going to haunt me for a long while.
I found myself trying to figure out what the poems were about. The onslaught of imagery, while exceptional, obscured the poems, and often failed to transition well. I felt myself floating in a sea of gore and violence with no life jacket. Violence for the sake of violence. Some of Good's poems had awkward starts and ends; starting a poem with "It's weird." immediately pulls me out of it.
That said, once I let go of the desire to know, to understand, I quite enjoyed the feeling of being dragged from one line to the next, curious about what I would read next.
I found myself trying to figure out what the poems were about. The onslaught of imagery, while exceptional, obscured the poems, and often failed to transition well. I felt myself floating in a sea of gore and violence with no life jacket. Violence for the sake of violence. Some of Good's poems had awkward starts and ends; starting a poem with "It's weird." immediately pulls me out of it.
That said, once I let go of the desire to know, to understand, I quite enjoyed the feeling of being dragged from one line to the next, curious about what I would read next.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Death
Moderate: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness
Minor: Kidnapping, Gun violence, Suicide, Genocide, and Forced institutionalization
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