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abbie_ 's review for:
This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
What I liked/loved
- the poems were beautiful and I know this is amateurish of me but I liked that lots of them actually rhymed. Most of the poetry I’ve read lately (which is admittedly not a lot), there were no rhymes to be found
- The small but pertinent ways Simpson draws your eye to the everyday violence of colonialism
- The story set in a near future where the last piece of the forest is kept under a glass dome and people have to pay astronomical sums to go visit it, only to never recover when they experience nature in a world overrun by concrete
- Funny and vulnerable, humour mixed with anger in the best way
- Love the modern settings of the stories, with texts often taking centre stage
- That the songs/poems are on Spotify to listen to!
- Untranslated Nishnaabeg words sprinkled throughout. It’s rare that a book is written without a white, English-speaking western person in mind as the primary audience
What I didn’t like
- I’m very dense with poetry so some of the poems just whooshed right over my head, despite my enjoying their pretty words