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moonyreadsbystarlight 's review for:
Inventory
by Dionne Brand
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...
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...
Graphic: Child death, Racism, Violence, War