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dessa's review
4.0
"Real subversive art isn't a cross-stitch of sex toys and expected sex radical
slogans. Truly subversive cross-stitch reads, "You're Not the Only One
with a Dead Friend." A quote from our relationship I use as a reminder.
One of the many things you claim not to have said."
I checked this out from the library and started reading it while I was waiting for the bus and then read it on the bus and read it as I walked from the bus to my apartment and then I sat on the couch in my apartment and finished it.
It's dizzying and scalding and honest and brutal. Poems about fierce regret and vicious self-loathing and the unforgivable failures and cruelties of other people. I can't recommend reading it all in one sitting, because it's exhausting, it's heartbreaking, it's like drinking a glass of saltwater. But there are some really, really beautiful poems in this collection and I can't stop thinking about them.
slogans. Truly subversive cross-stitch reads, "You're Not the Only One
with a Dead Friend." A quote from our relationship I use as a reminder.
One of the many things you claim not to have said."
I checked this out from the library and started reading it while I was waiting for the bus and then read it on the bus and read it as I walked from the bus to my apartment and then I sat on the couch in my apartment and finished it.
It's dizzying and scalding and honest and brutal. Poems about fierce regret and vicious self-loathing and the unforgivable failures and cruelties of other people. I can't recommend reading it all in one sitting, because it's exhausting, it's heartbreaking, it's like drinking a glass of saltwater. But there are some really, really beautiful poems in this collection and I can't stop thinking about them.
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