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A review by chellyfish
Best New Poets 2013 by Meg Day, Jazzy Danziger, Mikko Harvey, Brenda Shaughnessy
3.0
Considering that this is the product of fined poem-submission by completely unknown poets, there are bound to be duds. And there are definitely duds.
Tarfia Faizullah's "Self Portrait as Slinky" was sort of wonderfully formulaic, using a common, universal (also, perhaps, outdated) toy as a metaphor for minority image and self image doubts.
The collection's opening piece by Hannah Sanghee Park, "BANG", was a really, really great study of word and phonetics.
Had the tone set by these two (among others, of course) been kept throughout, this would have been a five star collection. But I suppose that's always a pipe dream in poetry collections, and here as well.
Tarfia Faizullah's "Self Portrait as Slinky" was sort of wonderfully formulaic, using a common, universal (also, perhaps, outdated) toy as a metaphor for minority image and self image doubts.
The collection's opening piece by Hannah Sanghee Park, "BANG", was a really, really great study of word and phonetics.
Had the tone set by these two (among others, of course) been kept throughout, this would have been a five star collection. But I suppose that's always a pipe dream in poetry collections, and here as well.