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felt that the poems in this collection played more with language and images than with meaning in some ways, I mean, the title "Trinkets Mashed Into a Blender" is exactly what these poems seemed to be for me tidbits of imagery and language mixed up to conjure up images like polaroid stills, or something even more abstract perhaps.
For instance, in "Dicey's Document", the disjointed lines, "Gummy roses, gummy urns, protesting the scientists / has evolved from a new world order" seems to be a kind of stylistic commonality that the poems share in this collection.
It's as if each line is an incomplete idea or phrase and the next is followed by a completely different incomplete phrase, etc.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing at all, But it's as if the imagery and ideas overlap like a visual collage or pastiche creating a mixture that does not say anything really definite or immediately obvious.
Hence, I think the title of this collection is appropriate because indeed, the poems are like trinkets mashed into a blender in more ways than one.
Trace Peterson is a trans woman poet critic, Author of Since I Moved In Chax Press,, she is also founding editor of EOAGH, which has won two Lambda Literary Awards, She is coeditor of the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics Nightboat Books,and coeditor of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott Chax Press,.
Her work has appeared in Readings in Contemporary Poetry:

An Anthology Dia Art Foundation/Yale University Press,, Best American Experimental WritingWesleyan University Press,, and TSQ.
Her second full length book of poems is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in, .