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jonjeffryes's review
3.0
I feel like I would have gotten more out this poem series if I knew more about the life and/or work of Mistress Bradstreet. After reading the poems (or poem...I'm never sure with books like this) I read the notes, and then went back and revisited portions of the text and they made more sense. Then I went to Wikipedia and skimmed a quick bio of Bradstreet and more pieces fell into place. On its own I thought Berryman did a nice job of bringing the hard realities of the colonist's existence to life...but I did find the amount sexuality (or at least what I read as the sexuality...I can never tell if I just have a gutter mind) surprising for a poem about pilgrims. I also like Berryman's syntax...it was kind of like reading Latin.
the_valiant's review
5.0
Look. Look. I get emotional about poets a lot and at least 73% of the time Im being emotional about poets it's because of John Berryman. Whatever. I'm giving it a 5 for Homage to Mistress Bradstreet bc tbh a lot of his earlier poems are like. they're fine. but they're not Berryman, yknow? He's still shaking stuff out. Like some of them are good poems but they're not the kind that sock you in the chest and make you want to go back in time and sit in a room with him yknow? K Im going to sleep now bye
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