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    Jackself

    Jacob Polley

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    Read a poem from the collection and also watch a video of Polley reading 'Every Creeping Thing',...

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ClareR (6129 KP) rated The Book of Joan in Books

Dec 13, 2017  
The Book of Joan
The Book of Joan
Lidia Yuknavitch | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, Gender Studies, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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7.0 (2 Ratings)
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I really wanted to love this. The storyline is right up my street: fantasy, dystopian, science fiction. It ticks all my favourite genre boxes. I liked it, but I didn't love it. As the story went on, I found that the time jumps just seemed to confuse me. How could the biological changes happen so quickly? Surely they would have had to have happened at least in utero, if not over generations? But it all seemed pretty 'immediate'. This is fiction, I know, and an author should be allowed to manipulate a timeline however they want to. I just felt a little lost! I loved the characters Joan and Christine: particularly Joan's 'superpowers' and connection to the Earth. The prose was beautiful to read in places and really descriptive. Also the poem at the end makes me curious to see if Yuknavitch will write more poetry, or indeed, whether she already has. I'd read it!
  
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Dana (24 KP) rated Howl and Other Poems in Books

Mar 23, 2018  
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg | 1956 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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I don't overly enjoy poetry for the most part, but I have to say, I really enjoy Allen Ginsberg's writing.

I had previously read "Howl" and "A Supermarket in California" which I very much enjoyed. The other poems, being new to me, I thoroughly enjoyed.

Ginsberg has a very interesting writing style that is very vivid. I love how he speaks directly to his fellow poets in some of his poems. In writing them in, he is giving them an even greater form of immortality.

I enjoyed the poem "America." It's asking the citizens of America what the war is worth, but America is also asking things of him that he wouldn't be able to live up to. He questions his own writing in this as well.

Ginsberg has a very musical beat to his poems that makes you have to keep reading. It pulls you along, especially when you read it out loud.

Overall, I very much enjoyed this little book of poems.