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nhnabass's review against another edition
3.0
“I speak of underneathedness and the welcome of mosses, of life that springs up, little lives that pull back and wait for a moment.”
Really evocative imagery throughout this collection and a stunning story of birth, motherhood, and grief. One, unfortunately, that did not quite resonate with me the way I suspect it intended to resonate with others. A worthy story, nonetheless.
Really evocative imagery throughout this collection and a stunning story of birth, motherhood, and grief. One, unfortunately, that did not quite resonate with me the way I suspect it intended to resonate with others. A worthy story, nonetheless.
jolee97's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
While I can't relate to all of their poems, the book is still really good. I love her writing style, it's easy to read and reads very quickly. I don't know if I would personally get more of her books (I had to read this for a class), but it's really good if you want to read some nature/family poetry.
freechasetoday's review against another edition
5.0
“Perhaps I could fabricate an image to represent this // agony, but the steward has walked into the galley / of history. There is nothing figurative about us.” To read any book of poems is to engage in a practice of conversation; within that conversation is, hopefully, a mix of sensory, emotional, and intellectual experience. For me to read this magnificent collection is to be called to confront the issues and subjects that challenge me most fiercely—the impact of humanity on our environment, the subjugation and disempowerment of many, the contradictions of how to consider my (and my world’s) history and legacy while also attending to the matters of my day-to-day life, all alongside the beauty and wonder of life in its myriad forms. That I chose it haphazardly from my stack this morning, after another attempted murder of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by the police in this country, makes its truths stand even more starkly and call me even more fervently to be in the world in a way that these poems are.