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Seasonal Velocities is like an intimate collage of Ryka Aoki's brain. It's made up of poems, memoir, essays, speeches, performance art, and when you step back from the individual pieces, it makes up the mind of one thoughtful and creative human being. Aoki is a survivor of many injustices, but her work still brims with compassion and hope for the future.The book could have been edited better--there are some misplaced quotation marks and the like--but all over the book is beautiful, thoughtful, a...
Nice mixture of poems stories, creative non fiction, essays, from a dynamic trans voice. As a trans woman, much of the narratives spoke tome, and i learned something from almost every piece. The fiction, novel snippet at the end displayed a nice melding of the poet and the prose skills into an even stronger more defined voice. Great impulse buy.
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When this was good, it was amazing. The section about Old Dykes and a Dog spoke to me as did the section about reuniting instead of doing outreach. Other segments didn't get me at the same level so I'm like "three for the total effect but that doesn't mean bad or not worth reading"
"So He declares it's a covenant. That this will never happen again.Whatever.It always happens again.A rainbow, He calls it?Tomorrow, He'll call it ice cream.After that, He'll take you to Disneyland."I really liked this collection. Fairly short but exceptionally powerful, Aoki's beautiful poetry and prose, split into seasonal sections, explores a range of themes including the impact of physical abuse, family, love, religion, the ways we change, being Japanese-American, being transgender...ultimat...
I just finished this book, and it was everything. Maybe it's because I can't remember the last time I read really beautiful poetry, or because I love a good story (this book is full of them), or because so much of what Ryka writes about here isn't just gender theory but a theory of what it means to be human... but this book moved me way more than I was expecting. It was kind of one of the first times in a while that I read something and felt parts of my self nourished that I'd forgotten even exi...
