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hazel_oat's review
2.0
i didn’t understand this collection and i didn’t particularly like it.
i’ll be frank - i’m probably not smart enough to know what it meant. the poems didn’t seem to be saying anything at all. (but maybe that was the point?)
it’s tough being a writer, throwing your emotions onto a page just for them to be misunderstood and discarded. i’m glad i purchased this, if only to put a little change into Siken’s pocket.
i’ll be frank - i’m probably not smart enough to know what it meant. the poems didn’t seem to be saying anything at all. (but maybe that was the point?)
it’s tough being a writer, throwing your emotions onto a page just for them to be misunderstood and discarded. i’m glad i purchased this, if only to put a little change into Siken’s pocket.
sriq's review
"You can't paint the inside of anything so why/
would you try? Painting the inside of anything is/
dangerous. I imagined my wrists broken just enough/
to keep the feeling from crawling up my arm."
"I made a shape of the shape he made, subtracted/
what he shared with anyone else. There wasn't/
much left but it felt like him, wild and scared."
"The image remains as a body would. I turned/
the image over like a rock, but then the worms."
"I surrender my/
desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive./
Take it or leave it, and for the most part you take it."
would you try? Painting the inside of anything is/
dangerous. I imagined my wrists broken just enough/
to keep the feeling from crawling up my arm."
"I made a shape of the shape he made, subtracted/
what he shared with anyone else. There wasn't/
much left but it felt like him, wild and scared."
"The image remains as a body would. I turned/
the image over like a rock, but then the worms."
"I surrender my/
desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive./
Take it or leave it, and for the most part you take it."
booksrockcal's review
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
I read this for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge - a book by a BIPOC or LGBTQ writer published by a small press. I enjoyed the poems about painting and representation, the others were a puzzle. But always good to read poets unknown to me
laurenkara's review
4.0
i didnt love this as much as crush but siken's way with words is still incredible. he paints such a vivid picture. there were a few poems in here that felt like a personal attack and im not ok