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drekklin's review against another edition
reflective
5.0
Blown away by this little book. What a poet. I’ll definitely be reading more of his work
scrow1022's review
5.0
I sink into his poems often without understanding and am still soothed and expanded... those times I feel I do understand feels like an extra gift to be tucked close and treasured.
raulbime's review
It's difficult to review a book which you feel, in my case at least, that you've failed in a way. These poems are beautiful, with intimacy, loneliness, heartbreak and survival at their core. I missed some parts of it, and I don't think it's the writer's fault. It's just that, as embarrassing as it is to admit, I might lack whatever reader experience—not life inexperience, but reading inexperience in that I'm a relatively new reader of poems in a serious way, and these poems might have resonated with deeper meaning otherwise. I did read this to completion, and it is a wonderful collection despite the gaps in my knowledge, but just can't help feeling I've unfortunately missed a lot. I'll try to come back to these poems and the writer later, hopefully I'll have learned more by then.
mollshamrock's review
3.0
This book was fine, but it didn't draw any emotion.
Well, one line was pretty good,
" you are the knife,
but you are also what the knife
has opened, says the wind" (pg 19)
I guess this book could've been good I just am not a Huge poetry fan or anything so for me to really like a poetry book it's got to be pretty good (I have enjoyed poetry books in the past, like Ask Me How I Got Here)
But I guess this topic didn't draw me in and if a bad topic is to be enjoyed the writing has to just be that much better, and the thing is I do enjoy some poetry so I think I'm going to make a point of reading more poetry books if I can because just because this book wasn't my cup of tea doesn't mean that no poetry will be.
Well, one line was pretty good,
" you are the knife,
but you are also what the knife
has opened, says the wind" (pg 19)
I guess this book could've been good I just am not a Huge poetry fan or anything so for me to really like a poetry book it's got to be pretty good (I have enjoyed poetry books in the past, like Ask Me How I Got Here)
But I guess this topic didn't draw me in and if a bad topic is to be enjoyed the writing has to just be that much better, and the thing is I do enjoy some poetry so I think I'm going to make a point of reading more poetry books if I can because just because this book wasn't my cup of tea doesn't mean that no poetry will be.
dauerkid's review
4.0
"where arrow meets flesh, the blood corsaging..."
"if I've / been restless, then the way a compass can be, / and still be true."
"if I've / been restless, then the way a compass can be, / and still be true."
kell_xavi's review
4.0
4.5
When I read poetry books I note poems that strike me, and return to sit with them, gather them up and hold them, before I feel I am finished the book (and, as I mainly read library books, I return it). There is sitting and understanding left to do.
Short review: beautiful; a harmonious clutter of bits of plant, sea, cliff, light, dark; reading the collection as a whole creates a horse with all its smell, sound, heat, breath, right there in front of you.
When I read poetry books I note poems that strike me, and return to sit with them, gather them up and hold them, before I feel I am finished the book (and, as I mainly read library books, I return it). There is sitting and understanding left to do.
Short review: beautiful; a harmonious clutter of bits of plant, sea, cliff, light, dark; reading the collection as a whole creates a horse with all its smell, sound, heat, breath, right there in front of you.
jupiter's review
4.0
the first half of this was much, much better than the second half but given just how good that first half was i can forgive it
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