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sammysamsam's review
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
dioscorea's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
swamp0phelia's review against another edition
5.0
most inventive and gorgeous use of erasure i have seen to date.
victorianhouse01's review against another edition
5.0
Thinking about so many lines from RED that I want to engrave on my brain. So beautiful, so guttural. Girls against god
sarawiser's review against another edition
This was fascinating and I'm still processing it. When talking about this in my Queer Lit class, someone brought up the idea that this work relates a lot to a quote from Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA, "We won't die secret lives". All the words in these pages have always been there, people were just not able to see them. Through erasure poetry, Berggrun exposes these words and brings them into focus, just as we do when looking at the past and focusing on the queerness of history that has always been there but we may have not been able to see it.
emmasheinbaum's review against another edition
5.0
The lyrical, stark, chilling, empowering artifact of reclaimed narrative and agency is a gift to this world. Thank you for writing this, Chase Berggrun.