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A review by okjaaaaa
The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng
3.0
Thank you so much to NetGalley for giving me an eARC of this poetry collection.
The repeated separated pacing of the poems and the fairy tale references turned a little stale and gimmicky after a while. Both the formats and the fairy tale references worked well as literary devices in the beginning, but the repetition of them to this extent made them lose punch and meaning slightly.
Although some of the poems struggled to stick the landing for me, they make up a really interesting collection of poems that tell the stories of humanity's grief and hubris, from the beginning of life to the end of humanity somewhere out in the universe.
The repeated separated pacing of the poems and the fairy tale references turned a little stale and gimmicky after a while. Both the formats and the fairy tale references worked well as literary devices in the beginning, but the repetition of them to this extent made them lose punch and meaning slightly.
Although some of the poems struggled to stick the landing for me, they make up a really interesting collection of poems that tell the stories of humanity's grief and hubris, from the beginning of life to the end of humanity somewhere out in the universe.