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schwarmgiven's review
5.0
Seriously this may be the best book of American poetry published during my life time.
Absolutely unbelievable in terms of scope, content, language, focus, fun, and everything else that makes a book of poems memorable and worth reading--the heft of this book should encourage readers--it is massive and reads like it.
Lots of diversity in language and structure, which felt refreshing in today's poetry world.
Lots of sweeping content--great travel writing, great relationship stuff, great political stuff, great personal stuff, awesome observational stuff--this book honestly has it all.
Strongly recommended for everyone with even a passing interest in poetry.
Absolutely unbelievable in terms of scope, content, language, focus, fun, and everything else that makes a book of poems memorable and worth reading--the heft of this book should encourage readers--it is massive and reads like it.
Lots of diversity in language and structure, which felt refreshing in today's poetry world.
Lots of sweeping content--great travel writing, great relationship stuff, great political stuff, great personal stuff, awesome observational stuff--this book honestly has it all.
Strongly recommended for everyone with even a passing interest in poetry.
im_eebee's review
1.0
I personally disliked this very much, but everyone else seems to love it so.. take my word with a grain of salt I guess
cowboytreen's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
5.0
mxae's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
4.0
Was going to be 3.75 but something about the last section really got to me. There are some amazing poems in here, although it feels a bit cobbled together as a collection. There is a lot of very cool word play which I really appreciate.
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Violence
kianafer's review
5.0
coming back to this to document some of my favorite quotes:
"you make me so happy / how can i write it down"
"you don't have to give yourself to everyone you want / just like every impulse need not to be surrendered to"
"everything / everything / overtakes me eventually"
"i don't care if you think i don't know what I'm saying / i know what I'm saying"
"everything disgusting about love is an infection i have experienced personally / everything glorious about love also belongs to me"
"i missed something so hard it made me sad in a final way"
"truth... / i have stretched that word so far"
"but i left something soft / of myself in that room / i won't make the mistake / of bringing into the next one"
"the pain of similarity in the sweetness"
"you make me so happy / how can i write it down"
"you don't have to give yourself to everyone you want / just like every impulse need not to be surrendered to"
"everything / everything / overtakes me eventually"
"i don't care if you think i don't know what I'm saying / i know what I'm saying"
"everything disgusting about love is an infection i have experienced personally / everything glorious about love also belongs to me"
"i missed something so hard it made me sad in a final way"
"truth... / i have stretched that word so far"
"but i left something soft / of myself in that room / i won't make the mistake / of bringing into the next one"
"the pain of similarity in the sweetness"
grassandrogers's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0