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A review by thestarlesscasea
Let's Not Live on Earth by Sarah Blake
4.0
This is a really uneven collection for me, but when it's good, it's so, so good. Content warnings for the grim realities of living as a woman in a misogynistic nightmareworld, violence (sexual and otherwise), suicide, etc. The second half of the book is a longer poem about a spaceship coming to earth and what comes of that. It felt quite unique and made me think about several things from a different angle.
Some quotes that stuck out to me:
"But I'm telling you,
there's more than one monster here
with you now. Against you.
You've considered this, too, haven't you?
You know there's nothing you can do."
"Everything isn't back to normal.
Just because you can go to stores again
and people aren't crying in the street."
(this hit hard in this constant-state-of-COVID-gaslighting world we're in...)
"once, you find a group of aliens restraining
one alien. And you show them the rooms
that lock from the outside. And they're
grateful to you. Though you're not sure who
should've been locked up."
Some quotes that stuck out to me:
"But I'm telling you,
there's more than one monster here
with you now. Against you.
You've considered this, too, haven't you?
You know there's nothing you can do."
"Everything isn't back to normal.
Just because you can go to stores again
and people aren't crying in the street."
(this hit hard in this constant-state-of-COVID-gaslighting world we're in...)
"once, you find a group of aliens restraining
one alien. And you show them the rooms
that lock from the outside. And they're
grateful to you. Though you're not sure who
should've been locked up."