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spacestationtrustfund's review against another edition
3.0
This is the antidote to Instagram poetry, in my opinion: it's in the same style, and often very simple, more like prose split up with line breaks than actual poetry, but the difference is that it's actually good, and also I believe that Rachel B. Glaser knows what poetry actually is. She writes lines like "I’m attached to a rod with a hair clip" and we all know how much I'm into weird, casual objectification (as in, being like an object). From the same poem: "fuck me when no one’s looking / if my manual tells you to."MY NAKED PRINCESSyou have the right face for everything
except charity work
except zookeeper
from IT IS ILLEGAL TO LIKE YOUyour tears are worth something
they make my thighs feel like swan meat and thunder
from WHAT I'M GONNA DO TO YOUfirst I’m gonna strip you of your stupid clothes
then I’m gonna check my phone for new texts
then I’m gonna check out Pippi Longstocking’s Wikipedia page
first I’m gonna get naked
then I’m gonna pace like a security guard
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rpmirabella's review against another edition
5.0
Super cool. Funny. But also sexy, and also deep. This book knows about death, and about Snoopy. If you don't know whether or not you like poems, you should read these. Rachel B Glaser will become your cool friend. The one who writes poems.
lawrence_retold's review against another edition
5.0
In 2013, as an erstwhile performance poet and aspiring reader of poetry books, I encountered Rachel B. Glaser's first volume of poems, [b:Moods|17120702|Moods|Rachel B. Glaser|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1360551997s/17120702.jpg|23505760], and it was a revelation. ... I really *could* appreciate poetry presented through the page, rather than orally! I gave it a five-star rating. A year or two later, I became a committed poetry reader, and haven't looked back since.
Hairdo is better. Compared to Moods, the poems are less scattered: each tends to be about a single thing, a manifestation of a specific emotion, situation, idea. I was astonished at "Kitchens in the Middle of the Night", the way it evokes that confluence of eerie feelings peculiar to, well, kitchens in the middle of the night. But my favorite poem of all here is "Guitar Teacher":
"the girl was in the very highlight of her life
like a sea creature shimmering in the sun
the guitar teacher has been tracking this light
this growing understanding of her own freedom
inside and outside a guitar solo..."
The big emotions in Hairdo as a whole for me were humor and sexiness, which merged with Glaser's generally young narrative voices and optimistic attitude to suggest an overriding aura of upbeat play. The humor, by the way, is seriously funny. I laughed aloud at "I look at plastic bags / among the chain link / like caught souls / eventually, my vivacity is overpowered by cruel internet bloopers", as well as many other lines.
Hairdo is better. Compared to Moods, the poems are less scattered: each tends to be about a single thing, a manifestation of a specific emotion, situation, idea. I was astonished at "Kitchens in the Middle of the Night", the way it evokes that confluence of eerie feelings peculiar to, well, kitchens in the middle of the night. But my favorite poem of all here is "Guitar Teacher":
"the girl was in the very highlight of her life
like a sea creature shimmering in the sun
the guitar teacher has been tracking this light
this growing understanding of her own freedom
inside and outside a guitar solo..."
The big emotions in Hairdo as a whole for me were humor and sexiness, which merged with Glaser's generally young narrative voices and optimistic attitude to suggest an overriding aura of upbeat play. The humor, by the way, is seriously funny. I laughed aloud at "I look at plastic bags / among the chain link / like caught souls / eventually, my vivacity is overpowered by cruel internet bloopers", as well as many other lines.
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