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axl98's review
5.0
An EXCELLENT selection of Grahn's poetry. I never really got into poetry until I read Grahn, and now I really love it. She has had a huge influence on me; it's hard not to feel deeply connected to other women while reading her poetry. Beyond being beautiful, each poem manages to really make me think, going over it again and again to pick out the details. I also love how there are little introductions to each book, introducing context to the poems.
tangerineteeth's review
4.0
More lesbian-feminist poems from another second-waver, yes. Very spell-like, influenced by myth and ideas of ritual. I've been utterly absorbed by the issues and questions and ideas of the seventies this summer.
sydneyzahradka's review
I'm not a girl
I'm a hatchet
I'm not a hole
I'm a whole mountain
I'm not a fool
I'm a survivor
I'm not a pearl
I'm the Atlantic Ocean
I'm not a good lay
I'm a straight razor
look at me as if you had never seen a woman before
I have red, red hands and much bitterness
I'm a hatchet
I'm not a hole
I'm a whole mountain
I'm not a fool
I'm a survivor
I'm not a pearl
I'm the Atlantic Ocean
I'm not a good lay
I'm a straight razor
look at me as if you had never seen a woman before
I have red, red hands and much bitterness
elak's review
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I was first introduced to Judy Grahn over a Discord server filled with literature loving lesbians, and after having read only this one poem, I had already fallen in love with her poetry. Everything, every single poem in this collection, has felt so real, so snatched from real life, for me, it felt as if I was living between the pages.
With great skill Grahn touches important topics like gender, sexuality, work, capitalism and spirituality, the latter of which I had gotten my perspective changed on by her beautiful works.
There were some poems here and there that I couldn't connect with on the same level entirely, but they were beautiful nonetheless. The ones that I did connect with deeply, mainly the Common Woman ones but also many more, gave me chills regularly and after having read them, I wish I could be able to read them for the first time again.
Sometimes, though rarely, the poems' formatting was weird and didn't convey a feeling of closeness but alienation and confusion. The bigger part of the formatting was fantastic, though, guiding one through the poems and matching the vibes of the story told.
The information Judy Grahn gave between the different collections gave important context and added things that I perhaps would not have cached up on otherwise.
This book was filled with breathtaking works and barely to no actual misses.
5/5 stars
With great skill Grahn touches important topics like gender, sexuality, work, capitalism and spirituality, the latter of which I had gotten my perspective changed on by her beautiful works.
There were some poems here and there that I couldn't connect with on the same level entirely, but they were beautiful nonetheless. The ones that I did connect with deeply, mainly the Common Woman ones but also many more, gave me chills regularly and after having read them, I wish I could be able to read them for the first time again.
Sometimes, though rarely, the poems' formatting was weird and didn't convey a feeling of closeness but alienation and confusion. The bigger part of the formatting was fantastic, though, guiding one through the poems and matching the vibes of the story told.
The information Judy Grahn gave between the different collections gave important context and added things that I perhaps would not have cached up on otherwise.
This book was filled with breathtaking works and barely to no actual misses.
5/5 stars
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