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A review by villainous_hoopdreams
I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry by Halsey
3.0
2.5. Honestly pretty uneven. A few poems were really striking and well-crafted, and I can hear the rhythm in most of them. I respect the fact that there felt like there was a meta narrative in the collection. Giving voice to instances of abuse and assault is also powerful in this text, but my favorite poems were the ones that were notable exceptions to what felt like the through line of the work.
“Everything” stood out in its discussion of poverty and childhood imagination. “The professional” was sad and striking and really restrained in a way that the other poems were not, which I think made it more noteworthy. “Virus” was also a super weird nightmare of a poem that I really enjoyed.
The kind of brutal piece is that I don’t think this book would have been published if Halsey wasn’t Halsey.
“Everything” stood out in its discussion of poverty and childhood imagination. “The professional” was sad and striking and really restrained in a way that the other poems were not, which I think made it more noteworthy. “Virus” was also a super weird nightmare of a poem that I really enjoyed.
The kind of brutal piece is that I don’t think this book would have been published if Halsey wasn’t Halsey.