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divinemistake's review
5.0
“tell me a bruise can’t mean /i love you/, and i’ll show you my neck when he comes home from war.”
Best poetry book I have read since Vuong’s “Time is a Mother.”
Best poetry book I have read since Vuong’s “Time is a Mother.”
katie_pfotzer's review
3.0
Like many poetry collections, I felt that some of the poems were really strong and others were weaker. I also think this rating is very subjective since poetry is subjective. The strongest poems were the Bestiary poems or the ones that reached back to the Ukrainian heritage of the author.
caramels's review
2.0
“but also, that there are many ways to value labor, to eat and be eaten by love. there are miracles inside us, you see this in how we are here, sam. how we survived the cold unbroken and became something else entirely, not flame, not match head with countless wood bodies, not fire escape drooling gasoline, but something that rises in the heat.”
sammy234's review
3.0
I'm in a reading slump so I'm reading some poetry to get me back into things. Sam Sax is a good writer, but despite that, this collection isn't that memorable to me. I've already forgotten a lot of it.
heresthepencil's review
4.0
(james flint voice) "they paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. their light. their reasons, their judgments. because in the darkness, there be dragons."
jaykosumi's review
5.0
knew this would be a five star read only halfway through and it did not disappoint. not a single poem was a miss. in love in love in love. finally some good fucking food.
lizlogan's review
3.0
Usually I have very definite feelings about books when I finish them, but this book I feel very ambivalent about. It’s worth noting in my mind that this is one of the first poetry books of contemporary times I’ve read that is by a male author.
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