A review by boldeststroke
Glitter Road by January Gill O'Neil

5.0

No recipes to inherit, no sacred cows to burn on the stove's
bright eye.

not often the point of book reviews but the physical presentation of this poetry collection is STUNNING. the cover is gorgeous like i literally can't stop looking at the gold foil of the titular glitter road running down the center. the way that each section is split by a flower is so lovely as well. i'm lucky enough that the copy i ordered from thriftbooks came signed, also in gold. it's touches like this that make me really not care about the whole "judge a book by its cover" phrase.

no but seriously, just brilliant poems all around. i'm particularly attached to "begin again" (any poem that mentions a joy harjo poem is perfect in my eyes!) but there are many pieces in this that have imagery i'll be thinking about for the rest of the month. i'm definitely gonna check out january's older stuff!