Rudy francisco books6/9/2023 The longer poems are great as grand slam poems and the shorter ones as memes or flip-thinking. They’re about mundane situations and feelings, with a straightforward message or opinion that makes you look better at the world around you. There is this whole story before and after the poem and you only get a glimpse. The poems in the first half of the book resonate well with me as a reader. There is much more to them than meets the eye. Many of the poems are short stories that could be summaries of books. After a while, when the newness fades away, this whole new word invention theme gets a bit tedious and I stopped paying attention to the words. While I agree it would be nice if there were words to describe what he is talking about, the ones he came up with could be confusing for those looking for Latin and Greek roots. The new words in the first part of I’ll Fly Away have to do with death, growing up, and uncertainty.
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