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jprocino's review
4.0
A fantastic book of poems. It's raw and powerful and relatable as Chang navigates her grief through the loss of certain joys that come with the death of a parent.
honnari_hannya's review
3.0
Another one which I really liked but suffered some because of clunkiness. The conceit of writing each poem as am obituary grew old after the first half, and began to feel repetitive without any particular purpose as the collection went on. There was also the matter of some lines feeling rather contrived, everything is “like” something too often—reminded of that one line that went “sometimes things don’t feel like other things” as I read this, sometimes it is fine to let the metaphors and similes rest.
antennaclasses's review
4.5
if I had a nickel for every poetry collection I read about death this year so far that mentioned bonsai, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
also a great primer for asian american writing! this book inspires me to play around within my context, if that makes sense, specify how the color of my work is influenced by race, 9/10
file between gluck’s winter recipes and didion’s magical thinking