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Title: Know what you're getting!
Review: Before purchasing any book of poems, one should have access to at least a small excerpt with which to judge if the writer's style is to the reader's taste. I'd like to provide that here, since Ms.Dumitrascu has few publications. And, when you google her name, you will mostly find her surprisingly scathing rage-letters to various poetry contests, but barely any poetry at all (in fact, I only found one, and am quite search-engine-savvy). In any case, Ms.Dumitrascu's style incorporates strong imagery, which works well in a few instances, but is nonessential or otherwise in excess on more than a few occasions.An excerpt from "All the snow":"Death knows surprisingly few virginsIt copulated with you and you were thereafter left pregnantWith a fetus called horror "Self-published indeed...
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