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5. southern trees
Feb. 20th, 2010 08:25 pmThis collection has some of the best poetry I've ever read, for the record. Just to get that out of the way.
It deals with difficult subject matter that is personal (the end of a relationship) and that is bigger than that (race relations past and present in the US, and isn't that a polite way to talk about racism and the Civil War), but it also reverses that, because the personal can be for everyone, and the political or historical can be very personal indeed.
Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway.
( we tell the story every year )
Previous reviews: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera | Libyrinth by Pearl North | Ash by Malinda Lo | The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
It deals with difficult subject matter that is personal (the end of a relationship) and that is bigger than that (race relations past and present in the US, and isn't that a polite way to talk about racism and the Civil War), but it also reverses that, because the personal can be for everyone, and the political or historical can be very personal indeed.
Native Guard by Natasha Tretheway.
( we tell the story every year )
Previous reviews: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera | Libyrinth by Pearl North | Ash by Malinda Lo | The Changeover by Margaret Mahy