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sharamine's review against another edition
3.0
Her strongest poetry is in the platonic, self-reflective poems. The romance poems get lost in language that tries too hard to simultaneously make up for too much and not enough emotion.
ink_book_'s review against another edition
4.0
I will celebrate this life of mine, with or. without you.
The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
-My Life-
Sea Of Strangers by Lang Leav
The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
-My Life-
Sea Of Strangers by Lang Leav
caciliali's review against another edition
5.0
Lang Leav depicts a great balance between love loss, past present, prose poetry with a steady rythm througout the sentences and pages. "Sea of strangers" binds together sorrow with love to show the intricate, almost intimate, connection between the two while also see the future as an oppurtunity for greater, happier moments.
The author also notes the motive behind every great work through history; acknowledging the pain, sadness but most importantly the love - while oftentimes in vain - that shaped the work to what we can experience today.
With that said: "Sea Of Strangers" is a collection of poems prose for the hopeless romantics as well as the aspiring poets who have once known love. Not seldom, these two go hand in hand.
The author also notes the motive behind every great work through history; acknowledging the pain, sadness but most importantly the love - while oftentimes in vain - that shaped the work to what we can experience today.
With that said: "Sea Of Strangers" is a collection of poems prose for the hopeless romantics as well as the aspiring poets who have once known love. Not seldom, these two go hand in hand.
amym84's review against another edition
4.0
Poetry is something that I've just gotten into reading fairly recently, and I credit Lang Leav as the writer who peaked my interested in the art.
In Leav's previous published book of poems [b:The Universe of Us|29431081|The Universe of Us|Lang Leav|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1466948266s/29431081.jpg|49695644], I felt like there was this sense of vastness that peppered the poems throughout encompassing, as titled, The Universe above us.
In this new work, I felt like the different poems took spread out more along the horizon and less in the cosmos. Their tone shifting from dark and moody, to light and happy, as the tide shifts back and forth along the coast. In and out. It's a wonderful flow about it, but I enjoyed - what I felt as I read - was the more awe-inspiring tone of it's predecessor.
Sea of Strangers has, as mentioned above, a moodier tone. More reminiscent of Leav's first full-length book [b:Sad Girls|34023590|Sad Girls|Lang Leav|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1496162450s/34023590.jpg|47195868], a book that I've started but wasn't able to finish yet.
There's nothing wrong with being more contemplative on the aspects of love lost and / or a pining kind of love where you want to be in that light and happy place, but events decided to turn in another direction. There are many beautiful passages of contemplation on this subject. Maybe there's a reason why the cover is blue and the figure on the front in glancing down. I don't know. But I felt the tonal shift from Leav's previous work and while I appreciated the shift as indicative of the fact that this is a different set of poems. I can't help but long for more places of hope.
Something I did really enjoy this time around, which I don't remember feeling in Universe was the idea of certain passages, mainly the longer more contemplative, feeling as though Lang Leav was reaching through the book and speaking directly to the reader conversationally. It felt very personal.
As always, I loved Lang Leav's penchant for making huge statements in such a small amount of words. Those are typically my favorite poems from her.
While Sea of Strangers didn't have the same impact on me as The Universe of Us, I am a devoted fan, I am committed to reading anything / everything Lang Leav writes.
*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
In Leav's previous published book of poems [b:The Universe of Us|29431081|The Universe of Us|Lang Leav|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1466948266s/29431081.jpg|49695644], I felt like there was this sense of vastness that peppered the poems throughout encompassing, as titled, The Universe above us.
In this new work, I felt like the different poems took spread out more along the horizon and less in the cosmos. Their tone shifting from dark and moody, to light and happy, as the tide shifts back and forth along the coast. In and out. It's a wonderful flow about it, but I enjoyed - what I felt as I read - was the more awe-inspiring tone of it's predecessor.
Sea of Strangers has, as mentioned above, a moodier tone. More reminiscent of Leav's first full-length book [b:Sad Girls|34023590|Sad Girls|Lang Leav|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1496162450s/34023590.jpg|47195868], a book that I've started but wasn't able to finish yet.
There's nothing wrong with being more contemplative on the aspects of love lost and / or a pining kind of love where you want to be in that light and happy place, but events decided to turn in another direction. There are many beautiful passages of contemplation on this subject. Maybe there's a reason why the cover is blue and the figure on the front in glancing down. I don't know. But I felt the tonal shift from Leav's previous work and while I appreciated the shift as indicative of the fact that this is a different set of poems. I can't help but long for more places of hope.
Something I did really enjoy this time around, which I don't remember feeling in Universe was the idea of certain passages, mainly the longer more contemplative, feeling as though Lang Leav was reaching through the book and speaking directly to the reader conversationally. It felt very personal.
As always, I loved Lang Leav's penchant for making huge statements in such a small amount of words. Those are typically my favorite poems from her.
While Sea of Strangers didn't have the same impact on me as The Universe of Us, I am a devoted fan, I am committed to reading anything / everything Lang Leav writes.
*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.