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tmaluck's review against another edition
3.0
While the lengthier poems make what I feel are powerful statements of cruel complicity and cultural confusion, a fair number of poems in here are also short to the point of feeling like scraps. The book may be printed on 100% postconsumer paper, but couldn't Flynn have made better use of all that empty space on the pages?
alanfederman's review
4.0
I have read two previous books by Nick Flynn ("Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" and "The Ticking is the Bomb"). Both were fantastic - difficult stories, more so because they were real. This is a book of poetry, some of which I had heard him read at Book Court in Brooklyn. Like his prose, Flynn pulls no punches - his images are jarring and in many of these poems there is the theme of war and torture from multiple perspectives and voices. As a newcomer to poetry (I think the last time I read a full book of poems was college), I found this a great way to understand an under-appreciated and under-read genre.
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