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Once by Alice Walker
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Sped through this! The poems set in Africa felt incomplete to me, more like notes jotted in a journal than complete poems. Parts of the title poem were quite powerful, but it didn't come together as a whole for me. Surprisingly, the "love" poems struck me the most. My favorites were:
-What Ovid Taught Me
-So We've Come at Last to Freud
-The Smell of Lebanon
-Warning
-Suicide
-Exercises on Themes from Life
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Reading Progress

February 12, 2018 – Started Reading
February 12, 2018 – Shelved
February 12, 2018 – Shelved as: poetry
February 12, 2018 – Finished Reading

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