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ameliasbooks's review against another edition
medium-paced
2.0
I'm very much into Mary Ruefle's prose poems and essays, but these more classic poems didn't do it for me, they just went over my head.
rto8's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
5.0
Mary Ruefle speaks to my spirit. I love her. This collection is marvelous and mundane and little and big and it is perfect to me.
monalyisha's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Many of the poems felt personal to the point of exclusion; I struggled to connect with them. Still, there were some gems. If ever I have a Writer’s Corner, the following will be on the wall:
“All things written feel a little terrified at first,
...
but making anything you have explored time,
and exploring time you have created the world,
even if it is only a little cairn of broken bricks
at the end of the rainbow.”
For these words, I’m grateful.
maddykpdx's review against another edition
4.0
Poems to return to:
"Middle School" (a most excellent middle school poem)
"College"
"Middle School" (a most excellent middle school poem)
"College"
interrobang's review
5.0
can't stop thinking about "provenance". "I thought perhaps the animals / would all come back / together and on one day / but they never did". and then some. I love it.
tymelgren's review against another edition
3.0
I loved many of these lines and sequences of lines, but as complete poems I couldn't care about very many. The one where I left my leaf ends with:
I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive