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poetkoala's review
4.0
This feels like a time capsule. Very relevant. I never really understand the magic of erasure poetry, but this has GOT it.
thaonguyen61295's review against another edition
4.0
Cuốn này đọc rất healing, nhẹ nhàng, cảm giác được vuốt ve an ủi vậy
literary_lj's review against another edition
5.0
So it turns out that I might love some poetry.
Book 17 of 2025
I hope this finds you well
By Kate Baer
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I was looking for a book that fit into the @morethanabookclubpod bingo card space about a genre I don’t usually read.
For whatever reason, I thought, “why not read some poetry?”
I googled popular poetry books and honestly, loved the cover. 😂
This book is less than 100 pages and is a book I will be thinking about a lot. It’s a book of eraser poetry, where the poet selects words from a text to make it into a related poem. Baer took social media posts, comments, and DMs and created beautiful and poignant eraser poetry.
Some were from positive posts and others were from negative posts. But each poem offered hope.
She covered an array of relevant topics. I LOVED and HIGHLY recommend it!
Also, side note, her other book, What kind of woman is on kindle unlimited at the time of posting.
joanna_juana's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
allieeveryday's review against another edition
2.0
With few exceptions, I am a firm believer that one should never read the comments section. This collection of erasure poetry was essentially being forced to read the comments so that you could see what Baer was doing with the erasure. Sure, some of the poems resonated, but in general her work is just not for me. I don't need things to be happy all the time, but I do need to maintain my sanity as a woman in this, The Year of Our Lord 2023, and many of the original comment content is stuff I try to avoid every day. More of the poetry in this slim collection made me feel worse about humanity instead of better, even with the attempted tongue-in-cheek response. YMMV.
katekempton's review against another edition
3.0
while this is a flex, I felt this compilation missed the big gut punches I so very much loved in “What Kind of Woman”