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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Remarkably sad and abstract at times and clear as a blue sky at others. Excited to read Martyr! soon and maybe reread this one. Yeki bood yeki nabood a favorite
part of me feels a little unfair to rate this because i’m still sort of new to poetry but unfortunately i did not Get many of these. there were some i liked some i didn’t.
fast-paced
This book is a stunning meditation on addiction and mental health from an Iranian American author. I've thought about the title poem and analogy almost every day since finishing the collection, and am considering purchasing it so I can have it in a hard copy to re-read. As a dedicated library card holder and pick-books-up-off-the-street enthusiast, I can't remember the last time I bought a book just to have that I'd already read. Four stars because not every poem hit it out of the park for me, but the ones that did were very memorable.
challenging
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
... compared to him I
am healthy and unremarkable here I am reading a pharmaceutical brochure
here I am dying at an average pace envy is the only deadly sin that's no fun
for the sinner ...
... I am less horrible than I could
be I've never set a house on fire never thrown a firstborn off a bridge
still my whole life I answered every cry for help with a pour with a turning
away I have given this coldness many names thinking if it had a name it
would have a solution thinking if I called a wolf a wolf I might dull its fangs ...
- Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)
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There's a lot in this slim collection that I didn't get, but the language is rich and beautiful and I enjoyed the lyricism rolling around my brain. But the main thing I got from this collection is that, I really appreciate when poets play with form. I'm not even sure I understood the one I'm thinking of, Supplication With Rabbit Skull and Bouquet, but it could be read on the first page and then the second, or could be read across the two pages, and I liked how the sentences changed, depending on how it was read.
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None of my friends want to talk
about heaven. How there is this eternity
and the one for those
more clerical with their faith.
...
but I do wonder what gets left out —
least favorite songs on favorite albums,
an uncle's conquered metastasis,
or the girl whose climaxes gave way to panic,
whose sobs awakened the feeling of prayer in me.
May they be there too, O Lord.
...
- Neither Now Nor Never
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I keep trying. I wish I was better at reading poetry! I'm including a few of my favorite excerpts. And still, even with my lack of understanding, I'm thankful this art form exists.
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...
I try not to think of God as a debt to luck
but for years I consumed nothing
that did not harm me
and still I lived, witless
as a bird flying over state lines.
I would be more grateful
if being alive hadn't seemed so effortless,
the way I'd appreciate gravity more
if I'd had trouble floating in my teens.
Still, I apologize.
My straight white teeth have yellowed
and I can't tell a crow from a blackbird.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
This may be me at my best.
- Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)
am healthy and unremarkable here I am reading a pharmaceutical brochure
here I am dying at an average pace envy is the only deadly sin that's no fun
for the sinner ...
... I am less horrible than I could
be I've never set a house on fire never thrown a firstborn off a bridge
still my whole life I answered every cry for help with a pour with a turning
away I have given this coldness many names thinking if it had a name it
would have a solution thinking if I called a wolf a wolf I might dull its fangs ...
- Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Inpatient)
-----
There's a lot in this slim collection that I didn't get, but the language is rich and beautiful and I enjoyed the lyricism rolling around my brain. But the main thing I got from this collection is that, I really appreciate when poets play with form. I'm not even sure I understood the one I'm thinking of, Supplication With Rabbit Skull and Bouquet, but it could be read on the first page and then the second, or could be read across the two pages, and I liked how the sentences changed, depending on how it was read.
-----
None of my friends want to talk
about heaven. How there is this eternity
and the one for those
more clerical with their faith.
...
but I do wonder what gets left out —
least favorite songs on favorite albums,
an uncle's conquered metastasis,
or the girl whose climaxes gave way to panic,
whose sobs awakened the feeling of prayer in me.
May they be there too, O Lord.
...
- Neither Now Nor Never
-----
I keep trying. I wish I was better at reading poetry! I'm including a few of my favorite excerpts. And still, even with my lack of understanding, I'm thankful this art form exists.
-----
...
I try not to think of God as a debt to luck
but for years I consumed nothing
that did not harm me
and still I lived, witless
as a bird flying over state lines.
I would be more grateful
if being alive hadn't seemed so effortless,
the way I'd appreciate gravity more
if I'd had trouble floating in my teens.
Still, I apologize.
My straight white teeth have yellowed
and I can't tell a crow from a blackbird.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
This may be me at my best.
- Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)