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Blues by Nikki Giovanni
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The, I'll call it a poem, that ends of p. 51 ends in the all caps statement "WHERE IS A POEM WHEN YOU REALLY NEED IT" This in the form of a question, but lacks the usual punctuation.

there are a very few poems ... in this book ... but not very many ... most of the pages are filled with prose ... that lack capital letters ... and proper punctuation ... for the most part lacking conjunctions such as the word and ... with ellipsis substituted ... just as the rest of my comments will ... giovanni calls these poems ... i do not understand her justification for this ... there is nothing poetical about them ... are we to accept that these prose pieces are poetry because they are written by a poet ... i do not accept that ... most run on and on ... they take too long to get to their subjects ... the first three paragraphs of the last one ... could be entirely cut ... it would be much better ... i agree with most ... not all ... the points ... especially the political points giovanni makes in these pieces ... so what ... they are badly written ... lacking the discipline that fine poets use in their work ... WHERE IS A POEM WHEN YOU REALLY NEED IT
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