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Letters to Ghosts by Jasmine Sierra

By Pamelascott

Nº4 in the Platypus Press 2412 chapbook series

"With its bewitching imagery and poignant disharmonies, Letters to Ghosts comes as an uncomfortable inquiry into one's identity and how this identity can actually have little or nothing to do with auto-determination." -DrunkenBoat

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[GRANDMOTHER DIED long before i held her name between my teeth, but i found her old grimoire half-crumbled in the sofa]

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(Platypus Press, 1 December 2016, ebook, 12 pages, freebie from the publisher)

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This is my first time reading the poet.

There's something very haunting and beautiful about the poems in this little chapbook. The poems don't follow a traditional format; no capital letters except the first couple of words and most of them laid out in a paragraph rather than stanzas. I liked this. I also like the way the poet uses repetition especially in Her Drowned, the best poem in the collection. I also liked Mess.

Letters Ghosts Jasmine Sierra

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