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brooklynb's review
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A powerful collection of poems confronting painful issues head on. Definitely recommend.
magenta_menace's review
4.0
girlhood is a curse in perkovich's poetry collection, one marred by viscera, religious imagery, and explicit sex. the author's depcition of abuse is so poignantly done and the overarching theme of the collection translated from piece to piece. i give this collection four stars instead of five just because some of the prose-poems were incredibly dense, which was sometimes difficult to get into following shorter poems with a lot of white space on the page. these stylistic concerns have nothing to do with the content, but if you're an unfocused reader like me, you may want to take those longer prose poems in chunks.
shiloniz's review
5.0
Emily Perkovich's baby, sweetheart, honey is a map of rages: sorrowful rage, hopeful rage, quiet and loud rages, rampaging and vengeful rages. She stacks them for us one on top of the other, like records lined on the wall of the greatest hits, but these aren't the greatest hits, these are the encompassing traumas of someone whose lived through assault, partnered violences, and the insipid and systemic ways our bodies are placed in the unforgiving hands of those who seek to do us harm. She highlights so well the absurdity, the absolute insanity of what women have to live through. That doesn't mean there isn't softness here too. In the poem double helix Perkovich writes: "here's the problem, i was never touched enough or maybe i was touched / enough but it just wasn't the right kind of touch or maybe i was touched too / much and now nothing is enough or maybe none of those is the problem but / there is definitely a problem"
I'll follow Perkovich wherever she has to take me, and you should too.
I'll follow Perkovich wherever she has to take me, and you should too.
undermeyou's review
5.0
I am biased, but I am also actually proud of this, and if that can win out over my imposter syndrome, then this is probably worth reading.
michaelgreenreads's review
5.0
I love checking out indie feminist poets and omg this collection is so good. Confessional, dark, well written, and compelling - simple words, but it captures a bit of the light in this dark volume about sexual violence and defiance.