A review by cattytrona
Asphodel by Hilda Doolittle

3.0

we’re so reliant on words to make sense, and so much of the writing we receive from the world does, which makes it catastrophically easy to forget that in fact, it’s actually easier to write nonsense than sense; that words can be just as utterly disorienting as grounding or truth-affirming. sense floats to the surface in this, and narrative persists throughout, despite it all, but it’s notable that the book starts on the rolling, seasick deck of a ship a-wave