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Bang Ditto (2009)

by Amber Tamblyn(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1933149345 (ISBN13: 9781933149349)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Manic D Press, Inc.

review 1: Amber Tamblyn does an interesting job of describing what the life of a young actress is like through her poetry. She has been writing poetry since the age of 11, and most of her poems are directed at young adult women. There are some great metaphors, similes, and humor used in a few of her poems that I think is fun to share:An Excerpt from "Poriferan""Our love was small, like airplane bathroomsand really only good for one thing: relieving ourselves"A quote from "Bang Ditto""Dear North star and Venus --I know you don't give a gas about me" (HA!)A line from "With lots of Salt and Imagination""My brain was a bottleFloating away with a message inside"While this book had a few moments that made me laugh or reached me somehow, they were overtaken by the clouds of unnecessary i... morennuendo, swearing, and somewhat cryptic metaphors that are difficult to understand. While I understand that these things may have a purpose to her while she was writing it, it sometimes remains unclear where she was going with some of the poems, or what we could get out of them as readers. I rated this a two, because I personally did not care much for the content, I feel that it would be inappropriate for my future classroom of high schoolers, even though I am sure they would read it anyways.
review 2: Bang Ditto is Amber Tamblyn's sophmore effort, I can see considerable growth since her first book, Free Stallion. Tamblyn is part of a group of young poets trying to make poetry accessible and relevant to teens and young adults. Although some topics of the poems are very specific to life lived as an actress, the majority are fluid, strong statements about the lives, emotions, and experiences of our generation. Sometimes, hilarious, sometimes sentimental, often wry, Tamblyn's words paint a picture of her life and demonstrate the commonalities in thought and emotion that bridges profession, station in life and in many cases age. She has a way with metaphors and using phrases that paint graphic images that kick you right in the gut. My one complaint about the book is that I felt the short stories and snippets were lacking the simplistic raw beauty found in her poems. In these it’s as if she’s trying too hard to be funny, instead of painting the picture with carefully chosen words. less

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