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Title: Bloated
Review: Don't let me get on my high horse, but this lumbering beast really should have been strangled at birth. I'm partial to a good sestina, but there's nothing worse than a pointless one. Part 3 in particular (a kind of deformed 'verse' novel) had an awful long gestation period and it shows - laboured, pedestrian, incoherent. And I do feel her editor let her down by allowing the word 'explicitated' (in the end note). This is an ill-conceived vanity project that does the cause of poetry no good at all. Cute cover pic though!
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