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courtneyfalling's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
I liked this collection, but it did feel a little too wide-spanning at points. Maybe I just wanted more understanding of disability culture and the responsibilities and joys of parenting a disabled child, rather than a primary focus on the aesthetics and syntax of sign language without that deeper why. Also I didn't like how this used colonization/colonizing as a metaphor... from a white poet. A similar issue of syntax and aesthetics > substance rather than in service of.
Main themes:
Main themes:
- The small beauties of grammar and rhetoric
- Falling out of love but trying to hold it together
- Waiting and falling snow
- Birds in blank cities
- Feeling watched in between moments
Favorite poems:
- Boilerplate
- Flight Tracker
- Hunger
- Jaw
- On Addressivity (What's Wrong? What's Wrong? What's Wrong?)
- Proof
- Spectrum
- Your Happening
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Misogyny
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