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Black Life (2010)

by Dorothea Lasky(Favorite Author)

4.34 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1933517433 (ISBN13: 9781933517438)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Wave Books

review 1: Dorothea Lasky is of the dead-pan, ain't-no-irony-round-here-Uhnt-uh school of American pop surrealism. That is, she asks us not to take as seriously as she does her literary savvy; a wry hyperbolist and a loose talker, she won't cop to the areas of exposure in subject matter suggested in her poems' poker face. I think it's possible to enjoy this without wanting to claim for it anything more than a mandarin taste.
review 2: Black Life is a daring book. A book that makes you want to talk, argue, contradict. Because it is written in such an imperative, self-assertive tone that kind of challengues you. It makes you think. It gets you angry. It makes you sad. And happy. But, overall, it makes you think a lot. It doesn't sound self-confessional or self-pity even whe... moren the author is talking about herself. So, for me, a book that raises dialogue, that makes you think, and has beautiful verses (and Black Life does) deserves 5 stars. less

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