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nogardens's review against another edition
4.0
3.5
But I could be covetous. I could be a thief.
Could want and work for. Could wire and
Deceive. I thought to fool the moon into
A doubt.
But I could be covetous. I could be a thief.
Could want and work for. Could wire and
Deceive. I thought to fool the moon into
A doubt.
georgialilyw's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I believe one of my biggest challenges with poetry is how much your understanding of them varies based on the context and understanding coming in. This collection left me with a lot of visceral feelings but I believe someone with a deeper knowledge of the bible would probably get more of the references. Sometimes wish poems came with a little paragraph next to them like you get at an art gallery - but I have a difficult relationship with that idea as well so maybe I should just let things effect me how they will?
alysses's review against another edition
5.0
This is what that other book I read attempted to be.
I'm left at WOW.
I'm left at WOW.
noel_rene_cisneros's review against another edition
5.0
Excepcional y poderosa poesía escrita desde una de las heridas sangrantes de Estados Unidos, el conflicto racial.
lorenzosivilotti's review against another edition
4.0
Jericho Brown’s poems unfold as a series of discrete images and phrases; when they can be teased into a collected whole, the result is sweeping and emotive—when they can’t, there is a sense that something is missing, still there on the table waiting to be found.
7/10
7/10
the_eucologist's review against another edition
4.0
This was my first book of poetry and I really enjoyed it. Jericho Brown covers expansive terrain as a queer black author with poems touching on the loss of innocence ("Romans 12:1" and "Cain" ), the complexities of MSM and SGL relationships ("Host" and "Dear Dr. Frankenstein"), exploitation in safe spaces ("To Be Seen" and "1 Corinthians 13:11"), and the transiency of family ("N'em" and "Motherland"). In this collection "Cain" is probably my favorite not only because its cadence recalls spoken word, but because it positions black youth as innocent while offering the corrective that bearing witness to inhumanity is often a morally formative rather than corrosive experience. Little / Brothers tortured most / Of God's creatures, and small / Men watched them bleed. It always fascinates me how so few lines can contain such universal truths.
bluelilyblue's review against another edition
4.0
From my experience with contemporary anglophone poetry, the cadence and musicality of Jericho Brown's poetry is unmatched; not to mention his precise understanding of poetry as linguistic economy -- every word has weight and purpose.