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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
Puisi sepertinya punya interpretasi masing-masing bagi pembaca. Bagi saya sekumpulan puisi di buku ini berisi paket lengkap antara sedih, biasa-biasa saja, dan penuh harap.
Anxiety is a living body,
Poised besides us like a shadow.
It’s the last creature standing,
The only beast who loves us
Enough to stay
-Fugue
Beberapa puisi mengenai COVID yang saya rasa semua orang bakal paham makna darinya.
Sorry if we’re less friendly—
We had COVID tryna but end things.
Even now handshakes & hugs are like living gifts,
Something we are shocked to grant, be granted
-Fugue
That mask around our ear
Hung itself into the year.
Our mask is no veil, but view.
What are we, if not what we see in another.
-There’s No Power Like Home
Uniknya beberapa puisi diberi anotasi dan catatan sejarah. I will recommend the book to be our remembrance last two years and ahead, once there was uncertainty feeling which sucked us.
Anxiety is a living body,
Poised besides us like a shadow.
It’s the last creature standing,
The only beast who loves us
Enough to stay
-Fugue
Beberapa puisi mengenai COVID yang saya rasa semua orang bakal paham makna darinya.
Sorry if we’re less friendly—
We had COVID tryna but end things.
Even now handshakes & hugs are like living gifts,
Something we are shocked to grant, be granted
-Fugue
That mask around our ear
Hung itself into the year.
Our mask is no veil, but view.
What are we, if not what we see in another.
-There’s No Power Like Home
Uniknya beberapa puisi diberi anotasi dan catatan sejarah. I will recommend the book to be our remembrance last two years and ahead, once there was uncertainty feeling which sucked us.
emotional
inspiring
Felt right to finally read all of this tonight bc I couldn’t sleep and today is Election Day and it’s been on my tbr since 2022
emotional
inspiring
reflective
2.5 but rounding up. I really wanted to love this but so much of it felt over-worked or just didn’t resonate, especially the pandemic-focused poems.
This collection had a few gems, but a lot of it was cryptic and convoluted. Gorman is talented. This book just didn’t hit the mark for me.
emotional
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
reflective
fast-paced
Obviously a first collection, but if this is her first collection, I cannot WAIT to see where she goes from here.
I read this for 2022 read harder challenge "an anthology of poems". I chose it because I was so inspired by Amanda Gorman when she spoke at the inauguration. This anthology of poetry absolutely blew me away. This young woman is so talented! These poems tell the story of 2020, the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, the election. She uses etymology often, to explain her choice of words, and she also gives historical background to the flu pandemic of 1918 as she parallels the two phenomena. I loved every word that she wrote, every insight that she has.
"[Segre] Gated", the poem that starts on p. 141, is so moving and brilliant, it is life changing:
"How we are moved says everything
About what we are to each other.
Last year we stepped onto an elevator.
We politely asked the white lady behind us
If she could please take the next lift
To continue social distancing.
Her face flared up like a cross in the night.
Are you kidding me? she yelled,
Like we'd just declared
"Elevators for us only"
Or "Yous must enter from the back"
Or "No yous or dogs allowed"
Or "We have the right to refuse
Humanity to anyone."
Suddenly it struck us:
Why it's so perturbing for privileged groups to follow
restrictions of place and personhood.
Doing so means for once wearing the chains their power
has shackled on the rest of us.
It is to surrender the one difference that kept them
separate & thus superior.”
This blew me away! All the thoughts that I have on the unbridled rage that privileged, entitled people are expressing over simply wearing a mask, rage which is just confounding to me, have been laid plain in this poem. It is a relief to see this explanation through Gorman's words.
Other portions of her poetry that touched me:
"It is nightmare, never the dream, that shocks us awake." p.44
"Lost as we feel, there is no better compass than compassion." p.48
I would love to hear her perform her poetry. She gives acknowledgement to so much of how I have been feeling, and how our country has been affected by the last two years, in such a beautiful way. Giving beauty and grace to such tragedy is a gift. I also appreciated all the history involved in her writing. She also used many styles of poetry: prose, concrete poems, haiku, erasure, etc. She was also inspired by the writings of others, taking letters and journal entries of past pandemic survivors. It is all so creative and relatable.
Highly, highly recommend!
"[Segre] Gated", the poem that starts on p. 141, is so moving and brilliant, it is life changing:
"How we are moved says everything
About what we are to each other.
Last year we stepped onto an elevator.
We politely asked the white lady behind us
If she could please take the next lift
To continue social distancing.
Her face flared up like a cross in the night.
Are you kidding me? she yelled,
Like we'd just declared
"Elevators for us only"
Or "Yous must enter from the back"
Or "No yous or dogs allowed"
Or "We have the right to refuse
Humanity to anyone."
Suddenly it struck us:
Why it's so perturbing for privileged groups to follow
restrictions of place and personhood.
Doing so means for once wearing the chains their power
has shackled on the rest of us.
It is to surrender the one difference that kept them
separate & thus superior.”
This blew me away! All the thoughts that I have on the unbridled rage that privileged, entitled people are expressing over simply wearing a mask, rage which is just confounding to me, have been laid plain in this poem. It is a relief to see this explanation through Gorman's words.
Other portions of her poetry that touched me:
"It is nightmare, never the dream, that shocks us awake." p.44
"Lost as we feel, there is no better compass than compassion." p.48
I would love to hear her perform her poetry. She gives acknowledgement to so much of how I have been feeling, and how our country has been affected by the last two years, in such a beautiful way. Giving beauty and grace to such tragedy is a gift. I also appreciated all the history involved in her writing. She also used many styles of poetry: prose, concrete poems, haiku, erasure, etc. She was also inspired by the writings of others, taking letters and journal entries of past pandemic survivors. It is all so creative and relatable.
Highly, highly recommend!