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Title: Ashes and Mud
Review: What happens when you take an aging poetry-slam goddess and replace fake transgression with faltering maturity? The result is a book you discard on an Alphabet City sidewalk, only to regret its effect on the strangers exposed to it. After her Nuyorican Poet's Cafe days, Blackman has frittered and hyped her ink in silly self-parody to the become a premier nonstop yawn-machine. I would rather spray a can of insecticide into my mouth than ponder it further.
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