BOOK REVIEW: MAMA AMAZONICA BY PASCALE PETIT

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Title: Mama Amazonica
Author: Pascal Petit
Published: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 112
Rating: 4/5

Summary:
This is a poetry collection set in a psychiatric ward of an animal hospital in the Amazon rainforest.

Review:
This was a beautiful, painful and wonderful collection of poetry.

The scenes some of these poems create are so vivid and filled with passion, life and emotion. We explore mental illness, trauma and the authors experiences from her childhood and it's all incredibly fascinating. The setting and the use of animals works really well. The language is colorful and intense and flows incredibly well. It all manages to make sense even through all the metaphors, which is very well done, as I've experienced before that things get lost in them.

My only complaint is that the collection felt a little long in some parts, and some parts felt a little repetitive.

Overall, an excellent collection and one I'd highly recommend to all poetry lovers out there.

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