A review by dvdpcp
I Will Never Be Beautiful Enough to Make Us Beautiful Together by Mira González

4.0

Would have given 3.5 if able I think. Had written an entire paragraph working through my thoughts but my phone restarted & it got deleted. Was feeling pushback initially because this type of femininity that’s trying to finding meaning and identity outside of male desire isn’t something I experience and I think to be so dismissive of something I wanted for so long made me feel anger, which is stupid and either misogynistic or sad or both. But I worked through it while reading and was able to just sit with her emotions and let mine go and I really liked the abstractness of the imagery, and the titling of the poems. A lot’s happening in cars! That felt very LA to me. I liked how the descriptions of intimacy felt dissociative and clinical in a way I don’t experience, that felt very interesting. The feeling of being comforted by death was also a persistent undercurrent that is foreign to me but I understand. Overall liked but I think it didn’t speak to a truth I have and have tried to articulate, I was just absorbing someone else’s experience