What The Reviewers Say

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Based on 5 reviews

Cruel Futures

Carmen Gimenez Smith

What The Reviewers Say

Rave

Based on 5 reviews

Cruel Futures

Carmen Gimenez Smith

Rave
Emily Pérez,
The Boston Review
With humor and outrage, Giménez Smith reflects upon capitalist, misogynist, media-obsessed cultural conditions and how this environment molded the 'I' in this collection.
Rave
Poets.org
Although her poems achieve a certain velocity, she still manages to delve into volcanic meaning and bask in the mirror of self-reflection.
Rave
The Adroit Journal
... an astonishingly present imagistic exploration of aging, familial bonds, and mothering in the context of late capitalism. Giménez Smith’s poems, sparkling with pop culture and gleaming with intelligence, unpretentiously welcome the reader into mortality, grief, and nurturing, while deftly highlighting how these human conditions are shaped by the race, gender, and class of those who experience them.
Positive
Barbara Berman,
The Rumpus
Carmen Giménez Smith owes a lot to American feminist and Latina forebears, and she deftly honors the debt. Cruel Futures is kinder than its title suggests.
Positive
Publishers Weekly
... brief yet powerful poems.