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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
emotional
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
fast-paced
I love Limón, but this isn’t one of my favorites of hers. It’s good, but it doesn’t have the live wire brightness that draws me to her - it’s more melancholy and feels a bit wandering. Some great stuff, but the throughline isn’t as strong as I want it to be.
emotional
fast-paced
I downloaded this book on my phone because I needed something to read in small bits while waiting at the hospital, then I realized that it was the same book that an instructor used in a mindfulness workshop I took last year, the one with a poem that made us in the class sigh happily and that I made a mental note to read in full at some point.
It ended up being the perfect book for me and for the time. The poems are observational and grounded in all the ways I like and try to be when I write poetry. I started a spread in my book journal just for quotes, because I was highlighting sections of nearly every poem and knew that I would want to carry the lines with me. This is maybe the only writing about the pandemic that I've ever liked, and the kind of poetry that reassures me that people are still writing good poetry.
An immediate favorite of the year.
It ended up being the perfect book for me and for the time. The poems are observational and grounded in all the ways I like and try to be when I write poetry. I started a spread in my book journal just for quotes, because I was highlighting sections of nearly every poem and knew that I would want to carry the lines with me. This is maybe the only writing about the pandemic that I've ever liked, and the kind of poetry that reassures me that people are still writing good poetry.
An immediate favorite of the year.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced