Rachel Long

I listened to this, as read by the author. I think that there is benefit from having the author read their work sometimes, but I'm not sure that her voice had an appropriate dynamic range for this. It all sounded rather monotonal and struggled to keep my attention.
Of the poems, I found it difficult at times to tell when a new one had started or where there was just a larger than usual gap between lines. The lack of dynamic range contributed to this in that it all seemed to run into one. She also had a vocal tick of pronouncing what I assume was asking as arksing.
Of the poems themselves there is a lot of dark in here, an encounter that could easily be interpreted as rape and what I presume to be an abortion feature. There was on recurring poem about how she slept that I found endearing but her written experience is too far from mine for me to have a great deal of touch points.… (mehr)