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kaarna's review
5.0
Amazing. I have no words.
A quote from "Poem (Let Us Live)": "How long can I keep tricking you/ into thinking what I'm doing/ is poetry/ and not me begging you/ to let us live?"
Just a title of another poem: "A Guide to Reading Trans Literature".
A lot of beauty, feelings, trees, flowers. Loved it.
A quote from "Poem (Let Us Live)": "How long can I keep tricking you/ into thinking what I'm doing/ is poetry/ and not me begging you/ to let us live?"
Just a title of another poem: "A Guide to Reading Trans Literature".
A lot of beauty, feelings, trees, flowers. Loved it.
shuly's review
4.0
All that womanhood
caught in the roof
of my mouth
was like honey.
I knew it would never
go bad
so I never said a word
about it.
–From "My First Love"
Espinoza's poetry is like balm on wounds I never even knew I had. She has a mastery of imagery that shines through in her grounded and minimalist style but what marks her work the most for me, another trans woman, is the way she hones so many of the feelings and experiences of our shared experiences with such definite and unique names. There Should be Flowers is the kind of work I will return to again and again, even after reading it front-to-back and back-to-front twice.
jd_brubaker's review
5.0
Amazing book of poems! Heartwrenching and tragic, a beautiful story of identity and self-acceptance. Raw and honest and just incredible. And the writing is phenomenal!
brookekhuffman's review
2.0
so insanely repetitive, beautiful analogies for the first 10 pages and then i’m just like dear god. she’s a beautiful writer, and clearly has a story to tell. i just wish she wrote more from the heart and less from the constraint of poetry brought to us by rupi kaur
ekfmef's review
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
I was drawn to this poetry collection by the following sentence: "This complex trauma only responds to the dialectical."
Espinoza really gets it, she really describes what it is like to live in a body that doesn't feel like yours, the struggle to keep going, and hopelessness you can feel.
Espinoza really gets it, she really describes what it is like to live in a body that doesn't feel like yours, the struggle to keep going, and hopelessness you can feel.