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Matt Koskenmaki
reviewed Shahid Reads His Own Palm on January 25, 2021 Shahid Reads His Own Palm
I found this reading a difficult one. It took me longer as I re-read the poems various times. The imagery is powerful, the poems are a testimony that left me heart broken but also satisfied with well written poetry. The world the author shares with us, is that inferno that is prison.
It also made me want to research and learn more about the judicial system in Virginia, learn more about the stats. I go the other way most of the time: I start reading an article about an author and then get their books and dive into their work and bios.
This time, these poems made me think about the topic of poetry, the use of images and poetic language to describe a sordid experience like is jail and to go from there to the research and articles in the topic. Hard. In the U.S. they have different jail systems depending on the state.
What are the crimes that lock you there for ever, for some time, or take your life? How is all that balanced? If it is balanced at all? There are sentences I don't understand, and might never will. But I found it interesting to learn more as the daughter of a lawyer.
I always told my father I didn't want to do his job. I think i couldn't. But it was always good to learn from him, and now I got intrigued by the author's experience.
We learn something new everyday. I am thankful to the New Yorker for their article about Betts and his poetry ().
Highly recommended for these times of craziness. The book and the article. Resilience ahead!
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Add Shahid Reads His Own Palm, Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both , Shahid Reads His Own Palm to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Shahid Reads His Own Palm, Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both , Shahid Reads His Own Palm to your collection on WonderClub |
