Alicia Mountain
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Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
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And yet, the other two poems felt as if they were included only because of their form. I could appreciate "Sparingly" to some extent, though it was too minimalist for my taste. Then, I have to admit that the ending heroic crown, "MyMerrill", feels more like a weird experiment than a finished piece. I actually got only a few stanzas into it before I had to flip to the back of the book to find any notes that might explain what I was reading. The notes did explain, but unfortunately, they made it even clearer that the poem was more of an experiment/challenge than anything. I read a bit more of it, but eventually had to give up on it, and it's hard for me to understand why a seasoned poet would feel the need to include it alongside such powerful poems as the ones that came before it. If not for this poem, the book would probably have been a 4/4.5* read for me, but as is, that last big piece of the book left me just a bit short of annoyed, more than anything, as it seemed like such wasted space/time.
I'd recommend this to readers who want to explore more contemporary form poetry, though it's unlikely that it will lead me to go out of my way to look for more form poetry or more work from Mountain, much as I really did enjoy "Initial Descent."… (mehr)