The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named by Nicole Sealey
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Read before: No
Ownership: Bought for myself
Sometimes I impulse buy chapbooks of poetry when a poem hits me deeply, and that is the case here.
I came across Nicole Sealey through the poem Even the Gods and the analysis provided under Ordinary Plots. Even weeks after reading it, the words of it are still dancing in my head and living there rent-free. As Devin, see the linked blog post, explains, the word even does a lot of work in the poem but it was fascinating what it was trying to do and how much the little poem says in a few lines.
Everytime I read it, I get a little more, a little different from it, and therefore, I had to buy the chapbook. So I did. And I have to say not all the poems in it are as powerful, or at least not as powerful to me personally, but there are still quite a lot fo good ones and it was inteeresting to read and just try to see what the author was trying to say but also the way the words were used to say things. That is one of the things I enjoy of poetry, the use of words and how they can have a lot of meaning in a single one.
This is not a long post, but I do want to feature the chapbook because it is worth checking it and also getting the powerful poems in it.