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A review by mehmehsloth
Yesterday I Was the Moon by Noor Unnahar
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
Poetry has not been my cup of tea and this book was my introduction. Here's few things that I noted. The poems were generally focussed towards the poetess's emotional struggles which were discrebed throughout the book. The problem is that some poems were generally not very distunguishable and feel a bit repeated.
The themes across the book are very scattered continuity is often abruptly broken.
But in positive side i really enjoyed few poems that had really strong messages where poetess actually gets vulnerable and tells how she wants to stand in world. Few pieces where she mentions about how this foreign language hinders her from properly expressing her which would be better in her mother toungue. I really enjoyed those parts.
Really enjoyed reading cultural and linguistic notes also. I felt those should have been discussed a bit more.
Overall it was fine. Again not really into poetry but it was a bittersweet experience
The themes across the book are very scattered continuity is often abruptly broken.
But in positive side i really enjoyed few poems that had really strong messages where poetess actually gets vulnerable and tells how she wants to stand in world. Few pieces where she mentions about how this foreign language hinders her from properly expressing her which would be better in her mother toungue. I really enjoyed those parts.
Really enjoyed reading cultural and linguistic notes also. I felt those should have been discussed a bit more.
Overall it was fine. Again not really into poetry but it was a bittersweet experience