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ylyzvt's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
litwithjenn's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
I read this for the Diverse Baseline Challenge in April!
I loved the cadence the author spoke in, I really enjoyed her poems, even when they made me sit and think for a chunk of time. It was a great piece of reflection.
I loved the cadence the author spoke in, I really enjoyed her poems, even when they made me sit and think for a chunk of time. It was a great piece of reflection.
oxnard_montalvo's review against another edition
I struggled with this. Brain fog.
frankie_vega's review against another edition
5.0
Lessons learned:
-I am my own source, I fill myself to pour into myself to pour into others to pour back into myself
-poetry deserves to be read in the sunlight
-love and grief and so damn interconnected
-I am my own source, I fill myself to pour into myself to pour into others to pour back into myself
-poetry deserves to be read in the sunlight
-love and grief and so damn interconnected
hiiiiiinat's review against another edition
3.5
The reading experience was nice, and I was often impressed by the inventive technical and formal techniques that Diaz employed, but that being said this didn't entirely hit for me. There were some very beautiful meditations on the human relationship with nature, and reckoning with the settler colonial legacy of the US - these were my favorites. Other parts I glazed over or found myself losing interest while reading, such as the repetitive love poems and lust poems. Overall, I'm glad I read it but probably won't return.
mashedpotato's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
tense
4.0
From the earth we come, and to the earth we shall return. We are water, and water is us.
vampire_burrito's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
overall a mixed bag. some of the poems I felt indifferent to but the ones that were good were very good. my favourites were american arithmetic, manhattan is a lenape word, run'n' gun, the first water is the body, exhibits from the american water museum and waist and sway.