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healnotslay's review against another edition
4.25
We are fire or
the image of fire, the day, or
the breaking of it. We disappear, chaff
of myth, what held the story of a season’s end.
Crumple the fetal S of your body until you resemble a ball of paper. The fold of your limbs, the ache in your joints.
Watch as he manicures his lawn, puts in all places a bit of blue, a turning leaf. And then,
how the female finds him,
lacking. All that blue for nothing.
Hauntingly vulnerable & desperate collection but still contains so much humour & levitytruly I gasped when the gay porn poem appeared it’s kinda jarring but I like that she had the balls to keep that in the collection & speaking of collection this was such a cohesive collection motifs revisited again & again without being boring & there still being like a Narrative such that I would go back and reread earlier parts because I’d realised something/she’d revealed something halfway through.
Hated that so much hinged on Greek mythology tho bc some of us are women in STEM and don’t know that Pegasus was born from the beheading of Medusa (I googled every single beast mentioned except the werewolf so I also learnt lots!)
Favourites: Self Portrait as a Door, Whale
the image of fire, the day, or
the breaking of it. We disappear, chaff
of myth, what held the story of a season’s end.
Crumple the fetal S of your body until you resemble a ball of paper. The fold of your limbs, the ache in your joints.
Watch as he manicures his lawn, puts in all places a bit of blue, a turning leaf. And then,
how the female finds him,
lacking. All that blue for nothing.
Hauntingly vulnerable & desperate collection but still contains so much humour & levity
Hated that so much hinged on Greek mythology tho bc some of us are women in STEM and don’t know that Pegasus was born from the beheading of Medusa (I googled every single beast mentioned except the werewolf so I also learnt lots!)
Favourites: Self Portrait as a Door, Whale
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pedophilia, Dementia, and Sexual assault
laurajhirsch's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
I really loved this collection— there are some stellar poems in the first half (I’m especially a fan of Self Portait as a Block of Ice) but I felt like it really picked up steam and got especially strong toward the last third. A lot of poems all throughout that will stick with me, and that I’ll be sharing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Dementia, Self harm, Rape, and Pedophilia
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