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The Heart Is Improvisational, Volume 11: An Anthology in Poetic Form by Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane
cheekylaydee's review
3.0
Hit and miss with this mixture of heart-themed poetry and prose, but I like discovering things I wouldn't normally read.
shirleycuypers's review
3.0
Original review
This book was provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Netgalley and Guernica Editions!
The Heart is Improvisational is a poetry collection about the heart. Some poems are about the scientific side of the heart and others are less scientific and more about the heart and its capability to love. The Heart is Improvisational had a great beginning in the introduction:
"Is it any wonder we place on the heart, an organ so elemental and life-sustaining, the weight and accountability we do?"
This collection is already the second poetry collection that I read in August. I don't know why, but I think poetry is so interesting and a special way to turn your feelings and thoughts into words.
The Heart is Improvisational had some poems that I didn't fully understand. Some of them were about science and some of them were about weird things that I didn't find that interesting/relevant. But overall I really liked the poetry collection!
Favourite poems of the collection:
Heart by Kenneth Sherman
Donor by Tamar Yoseloff
An Unabridged History of the Heart by Eva Tihanyi
Love by Faith Shearin
Nirvana by John Barton
Let Your Heart by Eva Tihanyi
My Heart by Ernö Szép (translated by Eva M. Thury)
This book was provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you Netgalley and Guernica Editions!
The Heart is Improvisational is a poetry collection about the heart. Some poems are about the scientific side of the heart and others are less scientific and more about the heart and its capability to love. The Heart is Improvisational had a great beginning in the introduction:
"Is it any wonder we place on the heart, an organ so elemental and life-sustaining, the weight and accountability we do?"
This collection is already the second poetry collection that I read in August. I don't know why, but I think poetry is so interesting and a special way to turn your feelings and thoughts into words.
The Heart is Improvisational had some poems that I didn't fully understand. Some of them were about science and some of them were about weird things that I didn't find that interesting/relevant. But overall I really liked the poetry collection!
Favourite poems of the collection:
Heart by Kenneth Sherman
Donor by Tamar Yoseloff
An Unabridged History of the Heart by Eva Tihanyi
Love by Faith Shearin
Nirvana by John Barton
Let Your Heart by Eva Tihanyi
My Heart by Ernö Szép (translated by Eva M. Thury)
singerwriter94's review
3.0
This is a poetry collection featuring works from a wide variety of authors, all giving their unique perspectives on the most important part of human life—the heart. It was an extremely hit or miss collection for me, and I found it very hard to get into. In general, I tended to prefer the poems that focused on the less tangible, more emotional views of the heart, rather than the technical and clinical depictions. To me, the poems that spoke from essentially a medical perspective felt like reading a biology textbook—albeit a lyrical one—rather than a poetry collection.
All of the writers who contributed are extremely talented; all of the writing was strong and skilled. In my opinion, however, the flow of the writing—both individually and as a whole—was definitely broken up by the ones that focused more on fact than feeling. Of course, not all poetry needs to be abstract and romantic. The freedom to be whatever the writer wants it to be is one of the reasons why this is such a wonderful vehicle for creativity and expression. But for me, I think I just prefer poems that creatively expand on the emotional rather than the physical.
All of the writers who contributed are extremely talented; all of the writing was strong and skilled. In my opinion, however, the flow of the writing—both individually and as a whole—was definitely broken up by the ones that focused more on fact than feeling. Of course, not all poetry needs to be abstract and romantic. The freedom to be whatever the writer wants it to be is one of the reasons why this is such a wonderful vehicle for creativity and expression. But for me, I think I just prefer poems that creatively expand on the emotional rather than the physical.
wonderingreader's review
I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I really could not get into this collection. I have tried to read on three different occasions now, and I think it is best for me to just accept that it isn't for me.
I really could not get into this collection. I have tried to read on three different occasions now, and I think it is best for me to just accept that it isn't for me.
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