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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
”Sometimes the men—they come with keys, and sometimes, the men—they come with hammers.”
Really beautiful and challenging writing
Really beautiful and challenging writing
emotional
informative
tense
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
sad
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
I usually take my time with poetry collections, but I read this one in a single sitting. It’s the kind of book that both expands the mind’s understanding while simultaneously meeting it where it is, especially with ideas of womanhood in a global and ever-changing context. LOVED this collection and the experience of reading through it.
One of my favorite excerpts, which both explains emotions I can only imagine and makes my own unimaginable emotions totally explainable:
“No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying—leave, run, now. I don’t know what I’ve become.
I don’t know where I’m going. Where I came from is disappearing. My beauty is not beauty here. […] I am the sin of memory and the absence of memory.”
One of my favorite excerpts, which both explains emotions I can only imagine and makes my own unimaginable emotions totally explainable:
“No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying—leave, run, now. I don’t know what I’ve become.
I don’t know where I’m going. Where I came from is disappearing. My beauty is not beauty here. […] I am the sin of memory and the absence of memory.”