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A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
2.0
challenging slow-paced

I an ARC of this book via NetGalley.  This collection of poems didn't work for me at all.  By the end I felt like it was a bunch of word vomit.  Everything felt clunky, it didn't feel cohesive at all.  Not just as a collection, but even within some of the longer form poems, it felt like I was trying to follow a disjointed train of thought.  Some poems also came across as almost name droppy or pretentious with the sheer number of references.  I haven't read anything from this author before, and if this is their style then I think it's just really not for me.