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What reviewers of Special Education have to say…
“If I imagine Mar’s book as a classroom, each poem a lesson, it’s incredible for the teacher-poet to begin by laying bare their shame. In traditional pedagogy, teachers are instructed to hold tight to their authority and limit the number of concessionary mistakes. But in Mar’s Special Education, harm is acknowledged and repented for.”
— francxs gufan nan for Muzzle Magazine
“…[H]er poems code-switch and cross-pollinate urban sociology, classical lyricism, and world-wise smack with a deft, inquisitive approach to each. . . .
Special Education is a collection of poem-tales and autobiographic truths delivered by a writer who has heard every expert opinion on her profession and identity and determined for herself, shrewdly and with practitioner’s clout, which ones hold merit. Her great power is how she convinces us of the same.”
— Arden Levine for Green Linden Review
“Mar’s poetry fights the erasure of her family, herself, and her profession from the public language surrounding teaching.”
— May-lee Chai for Eastwind Ezine