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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
I don't read a lot of poetry, but this book reintroduced me to the genre. It also highlights a variety of moments and movements in world history. Liberation was complied in honor of the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, but the theme expands the focus and creates world-wide connections, and I think this is it's real strength. Author biographies would add to readers' understanding of the depth of the diversity of the topics and events address here, maybe as an appendix.… (mere)
 
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becca.b | 13 andre anmeldelser | Aug 6, 2018 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This collection of 148 poems, each one related to freedom or liberation, represents the work of 62 poets from 24 countries. The table of contents lists the poet’s nation of origin. There is a variety of traditional stanza formats, along with free verse and even one list. Each poem relates to a specific phase of the struggle against bondage.
• “So they might know what liberation is”
• “We are the drums of our ancestor’s hearts”
• “No country untouched”
• “A ghost of gunmetal drones overhead”
• “Death sails into the gilder ballroom in purple satin”
• “Speak when broken”
• “Think of the trapped wren”
• “Towards a promised freedom”
If you enjoy light- hearted poetry, like Dr. Seuss or Robert Service, this book is not for you.

This collection would have been rated a five, except it is missing biographical or bibliographical information.
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bemislibrary | 13 andre anmeldelser | Nov 21, 2015 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Like most anthologies, the quality of work here is uneven. The poems in the collection are all nominally on the subject of liberation, but the connection on many of the poems is tenuous. The highlights of the collection are honestly poems in translation, perhaps because the poets writing in Chinese, Hebrew, and other languages are more in tune with the topic than poets in the English speaking world.
 
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wrmjr66 | 13 andre anmeldelser | Nov 14, 2015 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This is a collection of poetry written for the prompt "Liberation", written by poets from all over the world.

Like any collection of poetry, there were some poems here that I like, some I was indifferent to, and some that I actively disliked. I read it out loud to the air over the course of a months' constitutionals, because I feel that poetry needs to be spoken. It was a good way to experience this book. In fact, for the first half of the book, at least, I was thinking I would end up giving it a fairly bad review: because the poems were all about not liberation, but its opposite - oppression, cruelty, imprisonment, unfreeness. Most of the ones that spoke to Liberation at all spoke of death as liberation.

I think that it's an ongoing weakness of our society - and, in many ways, especially our art - that it seems like we focus on the pain and suffering of injustice - and there is no shortage of it; as a book prompted to commemorate the liberation of the death camps ought to remember, truly enough - but at the expense of allowing ourselves to believe in an alternative to suffering, allowing ourselves to imagine a space for liberation and joy, to explore what that is. And I was hoping, in an anthology themed around liberation, that I would get to see poets doing just that - poems about the exhilaration of new freedoms, of hope and expansiveness. Instead, for the first half of this book, I got poems about suffering.

And suffering is one of the hardest things in this world to write real, true poetry about. To write authentic poetry about other people's suffering is almost impossible. As many of the poems in this book demonstrate by example.

But, reading it aloud to myself, slowly, over the course of a month, as the weather here turned to a bright autumn, I came to realize - as a slow unfolding of grace - that the anthologist understood that: that the front half of the book is loaded with suffering because every page you turn in the book is another step forward to the joy that comes with freedom, that going through these poems in the order they were presented is to follow the journey of liberation, away from the stilted darkness and all the way, step by halting step, to the ecstatic 'we are free, we are free, we are free' refrain of the last poem in the book.

The poems themselves I found uneven, but there's something here for nearly everyone to like; and I could have wished for more in the way of editorial content, but there's something to be said for taking these poems as artifacts in their own right. If you are a person who enjoys modern poetry, international poetry, politically engaged poetry, this is a book worth taking on its own terms.
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melannen | 13 andre anmeldelser | Oct 22, 2015 |

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