Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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Average rating3.4
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Ratings20
Average rating3.4
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.
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Some of this really resonated with me and I really liked those parts but other portions I found myself just skimming over. Will likely read again many times and I do now have some favorite poems from the book. Different poems speak to you at different points in life. Magic trick 001, a plain truth, on releasing light, and what I told the doctor the second time are great
A couple of quite impressive poems, amidst a wider set of well-written but (to me) quite meh stuff.
I had high expectations because of how acclaimed Sabrina Benhaim is, but the poems in this book that I'd heard her speak were only good because I had heard her speak them. They didn't work as paper poems, and the other poems in here just didn't blow me away. Meh.
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