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Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón

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alyssa_olaf's review against another edition

2.0

While I enjoyed the first half of this poetry collection the best and did find moments I adored, I’m not sure if this formatting was for me. I did appreciate the overarching themes of sea creatures and nature, but at times this felt repetitive and as though I lost the true meaning of a few poems.

yapxinyi's review against another edition

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4.0

Can you tell I've been trying to read more poetry? That aside, Ada Limón is one of the poets I really enjoy reading from currently (alongside [a:Chen Chen|407926|Chen Chen|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]) so I decided to read this after her Bright Dead Things – which I really enjoyed, by the way.

This book is a little more tame, I felt, in the sense it mostly dealt with animal and flora themes, rather than more violent themes like death. But underneath it all, I could sense her love of life and the joys she finds in the smallest of moments... <3

There were still a good number of poems I liked:

- Hardworking Agreement With a Wednesday

Dear Today,
I have said too much, yet give me this–
I want to be a physical doll, just for now,
a stupid, splendid thing,
tumbled into the touchable day.

- Fifteen Balls of Feathers

12.
[....]
We sat in the car in the drugstore parking lot
and took our blood pressure over and over again
until we laughed so hard the car shook.

Here's the pulse. Let's keep it forever.

- Return to Rush and Flutter

[....] Go bury
your heads in the wasted weeds
so you can hear the beating
deepen, the blazing suddenness
of a wound overcome by wonder.

- The Undressing Day

the when of the skin, the when of the wrist,
the witching, the now, the now, the insist.

I will definitely be reading more of her works!!

eklsolo's review against another edition

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reflective medium-paced

4.5

Part 3. Oh, part 3.

goodmorningcaptain's review against another edition

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emotional reflective

4.5

leseine's review

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4.0

Had some really lovely bits, I love Ada Limon's voice. This one didn't have as many massive hard hitting portions but still loved the experience of reading it.