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shellroch285's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Abortion
cstefko's review
4.0
4 stars
I left it too long between reading this collection and writing my reviews, so I will need to revisit it another time and elaborate. But quickly, this was a pleasant surprise of a read, considering I picked it up on a complete whim at the BookPeople tent at the Texas Book Festival last month. It comes from a small press, but I would love to see this poet have a wider audience. She strikes a nice balance between accessibility and abstraction, and I loved the musicality and the pacing of her poems (pace is usually something I think about with fiction, but here it really stood out as a strength), and all the Texas details, of course. "Origin" is a perfect poem--I had to put the book down for a moment after reading it to recover. I'm eager to read more from Perugia Press, if this poet is anything to go by!
I left it too long between reading this collection and writing my reviews, so I will need to revisit it another time and elaborate. But quickly, this was a pleasant surprise of a read, considering I picked it up on a complete whim at the BookPeople tent at the Texas Book Festival last month. It comes from a small press, but I would love to see this poet have a wider audience. She strikes a nice balance between accessibility and abstraction, and I loved the musicality and the pacing of her poems (pace is usually something I think about with fiction, but here it really stood out as a strength), and all the Texas details, of course. "Origin" is a perfect poem--I had to put the book down for a moment after reading it to recover. I'm eager to read more from Perugia Press, if this poet is anything to go by!
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