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shit_she_reads's review
2.0
I love Melissa Broder and I love poetry, but I’m afraid I don’t love or even like Melissa Broder‘s poetry. I don’t even know how to describe this collection because it didn’t make sense to me. Every poem contains the words “hole”, “vomit” and “cock” and I fail at seeing the beauty or the art therein.
There are a couple of poems I did enjoy, even though I’ve read better ones:
What we love most is definitely going to kill us Hallelujah
Like a real flame
Sources of light
He she
Lunar widow
Litter
Long tomb
I did highlight some lines that resonated with me, but you can’t compare her poetry to her prose at all in my opinion. Her prose is also messy at times and definitely unusual, but I just get it somehow which, sadly, isn’t the case with her poetry.
There are a couple of poems I did enjoy, even though I’ve read better ones:
What we love most is definitely going to kill us Hallelujah
Like a real flame
Sources of light
He she
Lunar widow
Litter
Long tomb
I did highlight some lines that resonated with me, but you can’t compare her poetry to her prose at all in my opinion. Her prose is also messy at times and definitely unusual, but I just get it somehow which, sadly, isn’t the case with her poetry.
thequeenreads's review against another edition
3.0
Poems are made of mistakes.
Poems about poetry are mistakes.
I look to mistakes and say am I ok?
I look to mistakes and say make me ok.
Full review on : https://thequeenreads.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/book-talk-15-2017-last-sext-by-melissa-broder/
Poems about poetry are mistakes.
I look to mistakes and say am I ok?
I look to mistakes and say make me ok.
Full review on : https://thequeenreads.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/book-talk-15-2017-last-sext-by-melissa-broder/
cwalsh's review against another edition
1.0
I was hoping to like Broder's poetry as much as I liked her most recent compilation of essays (So Sad Today) but unfortunately that didn't happen. While Broder still maintains her unapologetic attitude, it seemed that something was missing. For some reason these poems feel unfinished and static, and in all honestly, quite boring. So Sad Today was a strong work that had purpose and to me Last Sext lacked meaning and simply felt like a random assortment of words on a page. I know essays and poetry are hard to compare, but in terms of impact, I think Broder should stick to the former. I hate to give Broder a negative review because her essays hit me on such an extremely emotional level, but after reading this I find it hard to believe that the two works are written by the same author.
thatzdeck's review against another edition
1.0
words
just nonsense words that don’t
go together but get
repeated a lot
and spaced out like
this such as
blood head skull hole
milk mouth teeth rot
“fucking in the pigs”
god and jew
and star and evil
poetry should be
better than
this.
just nonsense words that don’t
go together but get
repeated a lot
and spaced out like
this such as
blood head skull hole
milk mouth teeth rot
“fucking in the pigs”
god and jew
and star and evil
poetry should be
better than
this.
taylorswept's review against another edition
2.0
I love Melissa Broder. I love her books The Pisces and So Sad Today as well as her horoscope column in Lenny Letters that I excitedly read at the beginning of each month and I listen to her podcast Eating Alone In My Car while grocery shopping or when I’m pretending to do yoga. I love her twitter page, too. I think she’s hilarious. I think she’s my 2018 hero. But this poetry book? Umm. Not so much. It’s the most painful to read. Dark, twisted, violent and at the end of each poem I don’t know if I am worried or sad or confused? This collection would probably appeal to some readers but not to me. Even if I’m, let’s say, pms-ing or just feeling moody or sad, in general, I still wouldn’t like it? My only favorite part about this book is when she wrote "And I wear my crown of fuck its". I think that’s a brilliant line. I wish I wrote it myself.
airamseesghosts's review against another edition
1.0
NOOOOO this was so bad and i didn't understand shit but this time i don't think i was the problem. i loved her book of essays and i love her twitter but this was just. bad. not even thought-provoking bad. it felt like she tried too hard to sound like lana del rey.