Critical post

Denise Duhamel uses many different forms in her poetry book Ka-Ching. In her poems "Weapons' Inspectors Checklist", "Anagram America " and "Please Don't Sit Like a Frog, Sit Like a Queen", You see three very different forms that add uniqueness to the poems. In the first poem, "Weapons Inspectors Checklist", the form of the the poem is a list. The poem lists many phrases that are translated across several languages and then back into English. It is interesting to see how some of the phrases are changed when they cross languages and how some of them don't. Several of the phrases were completely different after they were translated back to English. I think that the list form is effective in this poem because you can easily see the phrases and their translations. The point gets across very well that Duhamel is trying to show how different things sound to different people. It flows very well and does not seem over done and allows you to see her point very clearly.
The second poem, "Anagram America", is a very interesting poem as well. She uses letters of the word "America" to end the lines of her poem. To me, the poem does seem a little playful for the sake of playfulness just because of what she is trying to do. There are only so many words that you can make from those letters and some of them are a little stretched but it still is a fun feat to accomplish. The poem itself has an intersting meaning where she seems to be defending America against what other people may think. She has a good point and it is hard to do the form that she used but i think overall it is effective. In the third poem, "Please Dont Sit Like a Frog, Sit like a Queen", Duhamel uses the form of a villianelle. I think that this is a good form for the poem. The poem seems to prtrya the message of what is expected of a woman. Telling women to embrace their woman hood and to be flashy about it. Sometimes the poem seems playful when she is trying to find rhyming words. I think it could be more effective If it was on a more serious topic but other than the rhyming words, It has a fairly basic message. I enjoyed this poem.