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mgdoherty's review
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
I am so impressed with how Aguilar has constructed the world of these poems. It's amazing how a story is told in the tension between the original "quote" and the new poem. As Aguilar explains in their author's note, to write these golden shovel poems, they took a line from a TV show, set each word in its own line on the page, and made these words the first or last word of each line of the new poem, constructing the new work around the original quote. The result is a fascinating conversation between poet and pop culture, as quote and poem reflect back on each other like an endless hall of mirrors.
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