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blette 's review for:
Call Us What We Carry
by Amanda Gorman
i picked it up thinking (hoping) id find some interesting sea and sky imagery 😶 i got some but it was pretty disappointing
the book as a whole didn't feel cohesive enough (im still not over that bike line?? not even used to explore how similar/different it might be to a ship?? Why was it thrown in there???) and i really don't think it needed to be this long!! would've preferred to see less poems and for them to be more thoughtfully crafted
you could argue the messiness, the repetitiveness, is meant to reflect how we could've felt during the pandemic but still im sure this could've been expressed in a less sloppy way!!! it could've been better conveyed in the writing itself!!
this is kinda what i thought we were doing (attempting) when i got to the last part (resolution, p.173) but not really 😶 most of the poems were still written like they were in the rest of the collection (which you could argue is the point bc change is about transformation and carrying parts of the past but thats a very kind reading of it im sorry the execution feels sloppy again)
im lazy i don't feel like saying too much but i do need to say that this felt so uninteresting to dissect that i ended up with only 5 a5 pages of notes and half of those were quotes from other people???
not exactly related to the writing but i did like the use of colored pages in fury & faith (p.153)
the book as a whole didn't feel cohesive enough (im still not over that bike line?? not even used to explore how similar/different it might be to a ship?? Why was it thrown in there???) and i really don't think it needed to be this long!! would've preferred to see less poems and for them to be more thoughtfully crafted
you could argue the messiness, the repetitiveness, is meant to reflect how we could've felt during the pandemic but still im sure this could've been expressed in a less sloppy way!!! it could've been better conveyed in the writing itself!!
this is kinda what i thought we were doing (attempting) when i got to the last part (resolution, p.173) but not really 😶 most of the poems were still written like they were in the rest of the collection (which you could argue is the point bc change is about transformation and carrying parts of the past but thats a very kind reading of it im sorry the execution feels sloppy again)
im lazy i don't feel like saying too much but i do need to say that this felt so uninteresting to dissect that i ended up with only 5 a5 pages of notes and half of those were quotes from other people???
not exactly related to the writing but i did like the use of colored pages in fury & faith (p.153)