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lordofdisorder's review against another edition
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
lorithereadingfairy's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.5
dukegregory's review against another edition
1.0
1.5
Feels vacuous. Almost none of the poems leave an impact. The style is styleless. Enjambment and stanza breaks and caesura appear arbitrary. Why is this so loved here on Goodreads?? Su Cho is constantly falling back on really basic Asian American second gen tropes (food, not liking "ethnic" foods when around white kids, language barrier (but on an extremely rudimentary level), some gesturing to cultural ideas from country the narrator has hereditary connection to, intergenerational strife). I'm glad other people connect to this, but it reads like contemporary poetry mediocrity.
It feels like a collection that achieves nothing. It feels like nothing here took that much effort (and not in an abstract expressionist "MY KID COULD DO THIS" type of way).
Feels vacuous. Almost none of the poems leave an impact. The style is styleless. Enjambment and stanza breaks and caesura appear arbitrary. Why is this so loved here on Goodreads?? Su Cho is constantly falling back on really basic Asian American second gen tropes (food, not liking "ethnic" foods when around white kids, language barrier (but on an extremely rudimentary level), some gesturing to cultural ideas from country the narrator has hereditary connection to, intergenerational strife). I'm glad other people connect to this, but it reads like contemporary poetry mediocrity.
It feels like a collection that achieves nothing. It feels like nothing here took that much effort (and not in an abstract expressionist "MY KID COULD DO THIS" type of way).
khadijah3's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
intricathe's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
2.5
rachelle_reads's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This is a slim book of poetry that holds quite a lot of emotion and imagery to reflect on. The poems bring in multiple generations of the author’s family and life in different parts of the world; they juxtapose the vivid realities of cutting into flesh and digging into earth with the strange ephemeral interactions with ghosts. This collection was easy to read in just a couple of evenings, and I immediately revisited poems from earlier in the books.