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In Kind
Part wunderkammer, part grimoire, Maggie Queeney’s In Kind is focused on survival. A chorus of personae, speaking into and through a variety of poetic forms, guide the reader through the aftermath of generations of domestic, gendered, and sexual violence, before designing a transformation and rebirth. These are poems of witness, self-creation, and reclamation.
- GenresPoetry
88 pages, Paperback
Published May 29, 2023
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April 17, 2023
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I finished this collection a couple of days ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. The pure raw emotion that Maggie was able to write about is truly what poetry is all about. Pushing the envelope the experimental way the poems were laid out, I have no other way of describing it other than, it just made sense! The pull the poems have on the mind is just captivating. Haunting, powerful, and impossible to forget.
The poems I connected with were:
- Alterations
- What Color You Would Be If You Could Be Any Color
- Dead Reckoning
These were the ones that I have not stopped thinking about and will be with me for a long time. Maggie's depiction of surviving trauma and the cost of enduring it in a complicated household is nothing but breathtaking.
Final Thoughts: I would recommend reading these poems out loud, I felt the greatest impact when I was actually able to hear the words aloud. This is a great collection to anyone who has been in the poetry space and would like to explore newer poets.
Disclaimer: Thank you Netgalley and University of Iowa Press,Iowa Poetry Prize for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
I finished this collection a couple of days ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. The pure raw emotion that Maggie was able to write about is truly what poetry is all about. Pushing the envelope the experimental way the poems were laid out, I have no other way of describing it other than, it just made sense! The pull the poems have on the mind is just captivating. Haunting, powerful, and impossible to forget.
The poems I connected with were:
- Alterations
- What Color You Would Be If You Could Be Any Color
- Dead Reckoning
These were the ones that I have not stopped thinking about and will be with me for a long time. Maggie's depiction of surviving trauma and the cost of enduring it in a complicated household is nothing but breathtaking.
Final Thoughts: I would recommend reading these poems out loud, I felt the greatest impact when I was actually able to hear the words aloud. This is a great collection to anyone who has been in the poetry space and would like to explore newer poets.
Disclaimer: Thank you Netgalley and University of Iowa Press,Iowa Poetry Prize for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
June 30, 2023
**Thank you to NetGalley and the author for the eARC of this title**
I really enjoyed this collection as a whole and especially appreciated the longer length of the poems. Maggie Queeney definitely dove into language here and I enjoyed the literary devices she employed throughout this collection.
So often I find books of poetry that are short little fragments - I loved the expansiveness of these poems and found that they made me go back and reread sections to further my understanding of the collection as a whole.
Definitely check this one out!!
I really enjoyed this collection as a whole and especially appreciated the longer length of the poems. Maggie Queeney definitely dove into language here and I enjoyed the literary devices she employed throughout this collection.
So often I find books of poetry that are short little fragments - I loved the expansiveness of these poems and found that they made me go back and reread sections to further my understanding of the collection as a whole.
Definitely check this one out!!
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