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raloveridge's review
3.0
I liked this more than 3 stars suggests, but not 4 stars worth. Some of these poems are really beautiful and the book, on the whole, is really well crafted, but by the time I get to the end of it, I don't feel like I've gone anywhere--which, perhaps, is the purpose of books about disasters in the way this one is. There is no greater purpose or understanding at which to arrive by the book's end because you can't make sense of a disaster like Katrina?
Anyway, the poems felt, at times, a little too scrapbooky/piecemeal, a little too journalistic for me to feel entirely at home with them. Still, I feel moved by the book, and I feel I've learned a lot.
Anyway, the poems felt, at times, a little too scrapbooky/piecemeal, a little too journalistic for me to feel entirely at home with them. Still, I feel moved by the book, and I feel I've learned a lot.
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