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A review by bashsbooks
Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Limón's poetry is sometimes brain-sparking and illuminating and sometimes a boring slog. I can't quite put my finger on why - I think at times she doesn't accurately balance how much description the reader needs to see where she's going. A lack of images gets fuzzy and vagueness is hard for the mind focus on. That said, I felt that the poems became clearer and her work altogether more understandable the further I read, so perhaps it was intentional.
Graphic: Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Alcoholism, Misogyny, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism