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Inventory by Dionne Brand
5.0
emotional reflective tense

Haunting, visceral, and a really interesting format. 

Parts of this made me feel like I have been rating most poetry I have read too highly because wow! Especially near the beginning of the collection, the ways that the words sounded were so evocative even before I registered what they all meant - on a sonic level. 

It is also incredible and depressing how much of this still feels so relevant. Change the names of some technology and a few of the countries/cities and it's today... 

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