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Title: A fine recounting of Jewel's life, but not very poetic
Review: It's certainly interesting to read about Jewel's life in Alaska, and her other experiences, but she should have done it in memoir form, because that's what almost all of her poems read like. Excepting the occasional obtuse simile or inscrutable metaphor thrown in, her poems are plainly written prose, with line breaks. A poem, being a short work should have, if not rhyme or meter, then powerful images, flowing lines, a play on words. Something to catch the reader's eye. Jewel gives us a few lines of broken prose, then moves on. It's slightly informative, but little else.
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