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If You Like Difficulty: Poems by Jan Clausen

thndrkat's review

5.0

Dense, brilliant, well-crafted verse that warrants more than one read-through. Hard to describe because Clausen's writing abilities far exceed my ability to succictly summarize her intensions. She is a genius at combining personal and political voices. She embodies the feminist assertion that the personal is political and the political is personal. She speaks for the planet, for schools of fish, for crumbling statues discarded behind an art museum. These are difficult poems, well suited to difficult times.