Does Otsuka's chapter titles engage you, making you want to know more? Discuss Otsuka’s use of italics. What are these shifts in typography meant to connote? Which chapter(s) engaged/disengaged your interest? Ultimately,the U.S. government deemed the Japanese men, women, and children, too, as the enemy race. Of those relocated to internment camps, ( Read more... )

I love how you took something as simple as a mosquito and made it interesting with the finer details. The dry humor is great too. I especially love "calm" in quotes...It reminds me of the only "Keep Calm" t-shirt I actually like(The one with blood spatter where the "M" usually is.) Anyway...I find this hard to criticize. If anything I think there ( Read more... )

I love your use of puns in this. The layered meanings are fabulous..whether you're referencing the concept of the title (Roleplaying) "I see that you have finally gotten him to commit"..both as a relationship and a role he's playing. (The profile pic also adds a nice touch of modernized humor ( Read more... )

Can I just say I fucking love this? This poem is so great it's making me curse. The images and word choice are bloody fantastic. Nothing says precious quite like doped up Auntie and the Pomeranian's pale, pink, penis. (Which brings me to my next compliment)..I love your sound repetition. The line with the Pomeranian had to be the most obvious...but ( Read more... )

First off, I love the, "I am woman. Hear me roar attitude you've got going on. Just a couple suggestions here at the top and down below around the poem ( Read more... )

Personally, I think there are some cool and some not so cool things going on in this poem. To just get the negative over with...Some of your grammar is kind of sloppy. If it was simply a matter of spelling I wouldn't mention it but the problem's a little more than that. "To be eased" does not make sense...(1.) It comes off redundant in that tense ( ( Read more... )

You've got some interesting themes going on in this poem but I think they could be developed a lot more. These are some of the themes I see: (1.) Psychological Projection (2.) Mental Walls (3.) Loneliness (4.) Fear of the Truth (Whether of yourself,other people, or other people's possible reaction to your transparency. (5.) Self-Doubt (6.) ( Read more... )

I thought this was fantastic. The images...the playing with time. I also think this poem can relate to a lot of different people. The guy in this poem grapples with a fear of mortality...but not so much the fear of death itself, but that his life won't be meaningful. He wants it all to make sense. He wants to be something better than the status quo ( Read more... )

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