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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
'And Love said, to me, What if I, myself, asked you to love him less. And I stepped out into the trough between the pillars, the dry ground through the midst of the sea - the waters a wall unto me, on the right hand, and on the left.'
may this never find me
may this never find me
challenging
reflective
fast-paced
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Love how the story unfolds with each poem. Favs, especially: While He Told Me and Years Later
challenging
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I’m not the biggest fan of Olds’ style, but I can appreciate a collection about excavating a relationship—a dead thing—from so many angles. Some of the poems were too “talky” for me, but the imagery was beautiful throughout.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Abandonment
This book got me into poetry in college. Even now I flip through it and still get inspired by some of the lines I highlighted.
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This collection of poetry about one woman's divorce captures how vulnerable being in love can make people feel. The arc of how she processes changes to her marriage is beautifully constructed, but some of the poems are so similar to each other that the collection drags on a little.
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
One of the most harrowing, honest, and beautiful accounts of divorce I have ever read.