![]() ![]() ![]() She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in "Santa Is Coming," a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina's self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses ("My face is hollow-/cheeked, spiced with sores"). Cash and carry") and eventually even robs her mother's house with her equally addicted boyfriend. She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia ("No problem. ![]() maybe 90 percent pure," Kristina quickly loses control again. Getting/ out of this deep well/ of monotony I'm/ slowly drowning in." When her former connection turns her on to "glass": "Mexican meth, as/ good as it comes. Kristina now lives in her mother's Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of "getting/ high. Hopkins's hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crank left off. ![]()
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