thecolourblue 's review for:

Corazón by Yesika Salgado

2.75

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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The poems in this collection were nice to read, but coming back to review the collection they haven't really stuck with me. I found the style of the poems a bit too literal for my personal tastes, at some places verging too close to generic-instragram-caption territory. 

The peoms focused mainly on the poets experience of her body, fatness, love and sensuality (lots of fruit metaphors), and her Salvadorian heritage. 

I learned to forgive before I learned to speak / to turn palms upward to God and my lover / to let a man ruin me with his love / to call the ruins sacred / to uproot everything and call the new place mine / to name the nostalgia something sweet / a ripened fruit growing out of a drying tree
- La Piscucha