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April 09, 2001: winning the national book award alone is good enough reason to pick this collection up. 'Child Beater' is another. Ai's early poems are without a doubt her best work. as she got older, her poems just lost most of the skill she exhibited in her earlier collection...
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Ai, like Danticat, deals with the sufferings of African American people and their ability to overcome hardships. Ai's poem, Cuba, ... winning the national book award alone is good enough reason to pick this collection up. "Child Beater" is another. Ai's early poems are without a doubt her best work. as she got older,
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While he recognizes his own place in the poem, ... Its titles speak for the poetry's overbearing directness: "Forty-Three Year Old Woman, Masturbating," "The Corpse Hauler's Elegy," "The Cripple," "The Suicide," "Child Beater," "Starvation." Ai's purpose seems to be to attack the reader, lash out at the finer sensibilities.
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While he recognizes his own place in the poem, ... Its titles speak for the poetry's overbearing directness: "Forty-Three Year Old Woman, Masturbating," "The Corpse Hauler's Elegy," "The Cripple," "The Suicide," "Child Beater," "Starvation." Ai's purpose seems to be to attack the reader, lash out at the finer sensibilities.
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Why a child beater? I asked as I read, as my stomach turned, as I wanted to peer further into the poems, as it no longer mattered who wrote the poems as the voices within the verse began ... In Blue Suede Shoes (A Fiction) Ai tells her own Joe McCarthy story. And if ever a favorite baseball poem this one could be it for me--
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dog-earedpoetry.blogspot.com/2009/11/ai-vice.html
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Dec 9, 2009 ... Why wouldnt you want to publish the following poem? “Child Beater”. Ai. Outside, the rain, Pinafore of gray water, dresses the town ...
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Of course these hard, odd, daring poem-stories make people mad. They're about real things and ... 3.0 out of 5 stars winner of the 1999 national book award winning the national book award alone is good enough reason to pick this collection up. "Child Beater" is another. Ai's early poems are without a doubt her best work.
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The comedic was by James Fenton called, "God, a Poem". Freaking hilarious if you ever get the chance. Others I've read and have stuck with me; "Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too" by Jim Hall; "Child Beater" by Ai; "Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford;
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