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Better than the other collection, yet still... contemporary. Review to come later.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Honestly, I've never been into poetry, but I saw several of Ms. Leav's poems popping up on Pinterest, and I really liked them, so when I was in Barnes and Noble yesterday, I picked this book up. I'm so glad that I did. 8 cannot wait to get her other works.
With simple, deft words she speaks my innermost thoughts and fears with far more elegance than I ever could.
With simple, deft words she speaks my innermost thoughts and fears with far more elegance than I ever could.
Actual rating: 4.5/5
“It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.”
And some of the poems or prose in this book indeed broke my heart. There is something about Lang Leav's writing that just hits me every time. The truth in her words put tears in my eyes multiple times while reading this. Sometimes, I would just stare at the page and read the poem over and over again, because her words were so beautiful and conveyed so many emotions. I was just struck by how real everything she wrote, felt to me. Her writing is simply stunning. Sometimes I could completely relate to what she was writing and it felt like she looked into my head and put the words I never found right there on the page and it was heart - wrenching. And even when I could not relate to it, she described everything so well that it did felt real to me, and maybe this was even spookier. Every poem and prose made me feel so many emotions and I was amazed that just words could do this to me. I love that the writing in Memories was so melancholic and nostalgic, because this is my favorite kind of poetry. Guess I am a little bit of a hopeless romantic after all.
Since I have only read Lullabies by her, I did not mind that there were some pieces from it and Love and Misadventures in here as well. It was like revisiting some old favorites, and I loved it.
The reason why I knocked of half a star is that I felt like there was a little bit too much prose in the first part for my taste, and I found myself missing her poems.
Overall however, I loved reading Memories and there were definitely countless stand out pieces in here.
My favorite was and always will be this one:
“Love a girl who writes, and live her many lives;
You have yet to find her, beneath her words of guise.
Kiss her blue inked fingers, forgive the pens they marked.
The stain of your lips upon her, the one she can’t discard.
Forget her tattered memories, or the pages others took;
You are her ever-after, the hero of her book.”
“It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.”
And some of the poems or prose in this book indeed broke my heart. There is something about Lang Leav's writing that just hits me every time. The truth in her words put tears in my eyes multiple times while reading this. Sometimes, I would just stare at the page and read the poem over and over again, because her words were so beautiful and conveyed so many emotions. I was just struck by how real everything she wrote, felt to me. Her writing is simply stunning. Sometimes I could completely relate to what she was writing and it felt like she looked into my head and put the words I never found right there on the page and it was heart - wrenching. And even when I could not relate to it, she described everything so well that it did felt real to me, and maybe this was even spookier. Every poem and prose made me feel so many emotions and I was amazed that just words could do this to me. I love that the writing in Memories was so melancholic and nostalgic, because this is my favorite kind of poetry. Guess I am a little bit of a hopeless romantic after all.
Since I have only read Lullabies by her, I did not mind that there were some pieces from it and Love and Misadventures in here as well. It was like revisiting some old favorites, and I loved it.
The reason why I knocked of half a star is that I felt like there was a little bit too much prose in the first part for my taste, and I found myself missing her poems.
Overall however, I loved reading Memories and there were definitely countless stand out pieces in here.
My favorite was and always will be this one:
“Love a girl who writes, and live her many lives;
You have yet to find her, beneath her words of guise.
Kiss her blue inked fingers, forgive the pens they marked.
The stain of your lips upon her, the one she can’t discard.
Forget her tattered memories, or the pages others took;
You are her ever-after, the hero of her book.”
i don't wanna sound pretentious or anything but i guess contemporary poetry isn't my thing?
Memories
by Lang Leav
Not really remember about the relations between the first, second, and the third book. But I thinks there are some parts that repetitive.
Nonetheless, I still like Lang Leav :)
All There Was
by Lang Leav
Not really remember about the relations between the first, second, and the third book. But I thinks there are some parts that repetitive.
Nonetheless, I still like Lang Leav :)
All There Was
My greatest lesson learnt,
you were mine until you weren’t.
It was you who taught me so,
the grace in letting go.
The time we had was all—
there was not a moment more.
Maybe it’s my fault not to research first about the theme of this collection. I was confident after liking the author’s other book “sea of strangers.”
This one is just an obsession for a man! I thought that memories could be about a lot of things, including childhood and woman friendships, but the whole premise of the collection is just some heteropatriarchal romance with a lot of emphasis on “he.”
I wanted to rate 1, but realized this might be personal since some people love this kind of theme. Technical wise, it’s good.
This one is just an obsession for a man! I thought that memories could be about a lot of things, including childhood and woman friendships, but the whole premise of the collection is just some heteropatriarchal romance with a lot of emphasis on “he.”
I wanted to rate 1, but realized this might be personal since some people love this kind of theme. Technical wise, it’s good.