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sara_shocks's review
5.0
Excellent in craft and content--I deeply enjoyed reading (feels wrong to say "enjoyed" when many painful topics come up but ???) this collection. Favorites: "This Body Leeps the Keys," "Black Woman on a Plane, Twenty-First Century," " Women are Doomed to Be the Angels of Love," "When the Devil Leads Us Home and Yells Surprise," "Notes on the New Reconstruction," "Blue Flame of July," Why Do I Feel So Old When I Look So Young," "American Children," "I'd Come Back from the Grave to Celebrate the End of Capitalism," and "Mosquitoland."
novelesque_life's review
4.0
RATING: 4 STARS
A wonderful collection that seems like a self portrait of motherhood, blackness in America, finding self, etc. I am looking forward to reading more from Wallschlaeger.
A wonderful collection that seems like a self portrait of motherhood, blackness in America, finding self, etc. I am looking forward to reading more from Wallschlaeger.
lifeinpoetry's review
4.0
I've been a fan since Wallschlaeger's Bloof chapbook (still free to download as a PDF, btw) and was happy to read her debut full-length. Favorite line: I drag my body around lovingly but / it still won’t let me go (from "This Body Keeps the Keys").
4.5
4.5
angelatolsma's review
I finished this in one sitting. From the first line it drew me in. This book of poems captured me exactly how I like to be captured. I have so many bent corners marking my favorite poems. I look forward to rereading this book and maybe grabbing a few more of Nikki Wallschlaeger's work.Poems that stuck out to me include; Nobody Special, Women Are Doomed to Be the Angels of Love, Blue Flame of July, Astral Traveling Got Me F*cked Up, and so many more.
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