Interior With Sudden Joy

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Summary: Terminally adolescent....
Review: ....willfully recondite, not restructuring language as much as hawking a private lexicon of buzz words in free association to the admiration of the impressionable. Not for adults, but go for it, kiddies, you could do worse among the glitter hyped as verse.

Rating:
Summary: taken not lost
Review: I went to a reading and heard brenda give voice to the words
that were splayed out on her pages. Her poems leave one with a feeling that she belongs to our world but floats above us in times of heart break, love found, eroticism. She has a keen sense of how to shape an emotion into a universal but foreign language. Words that describe what we feel, but also allow the reader to marvel at what she has rekindled. Many say she has lifted her style from others, I disagree. She is creating her own language and giving refound beauty to words of another time.

Rating:
Summary: staggeringly brilliant
Review: This is a formidable book. One of the greatest first books of poetry I've read. Her writing is avant-garde & linguistically exacting. She's smart.