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mcloonejack's review against another edition
4.0
I’m still horrifically bad at reading poetry, but I forced myself to take my time and really appreciate this one, and it helped! It didn’t hurt that Siken’s rawness makes it hard to read too many of his poems in a row.
Virtually every piece in this book is a beautiful car crash (or motorcycle wreck) to the point where I don’t like writing about it because nothing I say will really encapsulate it. Louise Glück’s introduction really sets the scene well when (paraphrasing) she says that this is a collection of obsession and panic. Though there is also an undercurrent of tenderness, both present but also often yearned for.
This rules and will kick your ass. Recommend.
Virtually every piece in this book is a beautiful car crash (or motorcycle wreck) to the point where I don’t like writing about it because nothing I say will really encapsulate it. Louise Glück’s introduction really sets the scene well when (paraphrasing) she says that this is a collection of obsession and panic. Though there is also an undercurrent of tenderness, both present but also often yearned for.
This rules and will kick your ass. Recommend.
17nhammad's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
minervaxyz's review
4.0
swings so mixed-ly between enchanting and unsettling
i thought i would never be a poetry person only for my first ever poetry books to be soul-melting so now i fear every next poetry i read is now going to be able to reach what for me is the normal🙈😭
reading good books is torture
i thought i would never be a poetry person only for my first ever poetry books to be soul-melting so now i fear every next poetry i read is now going to be able to reach what for me is the normal🙈😭
reading good books is torture
cherubssong's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed it but I didn't, I was enraptured but I was bored. It was an emotional journey and written from the heart - I suppose that's why I had a hard time stomaching it at first. The writing is beautiful nonetheless, and I will read it again. Some poems captured the ways I felt in the past so perfectly it was scary. Some have an impeding sense of doom, some steal your breath in fear, in anticipation.