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jesshooves's review against another edition
“What do you call it when girls keep dying, what do you call it when your body is / a zeppelin? How do you become something other than wounds?”
—from “Self-portrait as a broken Venus statuette”
—from “Self-portrait as a broken Venus statuette”
burstnwithbooks's review against another edition
2.0
I was... not here for this. Reading the end of the book, these poems were never intended to be collected and read together, which makes quite a lot of sense considering that they're all Exactly The Same. I didn't get it.
samaykay912's review against another edition
4.0
The language of this poetry is graphic and painful. It's breathtaking how well the words used give a tone of anguish. I really liked this, some of the poems got to graphic for me, but that's a personal preference. I would recommend this to someone going through a breakup. I'm not an expert on triggers, but there's some poems that mention eating disorders, and some of the poems seem like the sex wasn't consensual, so be wary if that can cause terrible things to happen in your brain.
root's review against another edition
dark
emotional
fast-paced
2.5
Unfortunately incredibly repetitious on theme, topic, emotion, word choice, and even exact phrases. Some of the individual poems could be ok by themselves, but once you've read one of the poems you have essentially read the entire book.
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