Mangosteen Core

Author: Annie Guo

Publisher: Veer Books (2020)

"Annie Guo in her book of poems Mangosteen Core delivers us into a centre, but of what or of where, and we swim, it seems so simple, the delivery, we move from line to line absorbing, but getting where, there is no straightforward narrative here, there is no known thing beautifully wrought, rather we move through the writing of the beautiful thing without arriving, we leave with memories that might be ours glimpsed as they are, if after a while you aren’t sure where your memories end and annie’s lines begin then give in to it, all real memories are partial things and the best of writing."

—Aodan McCardle