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A review by lukiut
Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sappho, Emily Dickinson
4.0
This poetry collection just melted my heart the whole entire time!
I recieved an ARC of this book through NetGalley, so thanks to them for this amazing opportunity.
I firstly picked it up due to Edna St. Vincent Millay being featured on the cover. Little did I know I had gotten the chance to discover four other amazing woman poets as well.
Subjectively speaking, I did not enjoy all of the poems in here, as usually happens with poetry collections, but every piece of work chosen to go into this volume fitted well the chosen theme, which I really enjoyed. Every poem had something to give to the readers.
Not only that, but also the foreword was very informative, as well as the short biographies for each author that were featured at the end. With the help of this piece of information, the reader gets some insight into the authors' lives, seeing where the inspiration came from.
The cover is extremely beautiful, as well as the illustrations present throughout the book, which fit the theme of the poems that they represent so well.
I only gave the book four stars, as above mentioned, because I didn't find every single poem as interesting and heart-touching as I hoped. Nonetheless, I loved the book overall and I would love to purchase a physical copy for myself.
I recommend this piece of art not only to people that are not as much into poetry and would want to get into it, but also to ones that usually enjoy it. It is a piece of women empowerment which shall be promoted as such, given the social statuses of the poets featured. Talking about love and heartbreak, I also found it as an inspiration to get better, to move on from past relationships and heartbreak.
I recieved an ARC of this book through NetGalley, so thanks to them for this amazing opportunity.
I firstly picked it up due to Edna St. Vincent Millay being featured on the cover. Little did I know I had gotten the chance to discover four other amazing woman poets as well.
Subjectively speaking, I did not enjoy all of the poems in here, as usually happens with poetry collections, but every piece of work chosen to go into this volume fitted well the chosen theme, which I really enjoyed. Every poem had something to give to the readers.
Not only that, but also the foreword was very informative, as well as the short biographies for each author that were featured at the end. With the help of this piece of information, the reader gets some insight into the authors' lives, seeing where the inspiration came from.
The cover is extremely beautiful, as well as the illustrations present throughout the book, which fit the theme of the poems that they represent so well.
I only gave the book four stars, as above mentioned, because I didn't find every single poem as interesting and heart-touching as I hoped. Nonetheless, I loved the book overall and I would love to purchase a physical copy for myself.
I recommend this piece of art not only to people that are not as much into poetry and would want to get into it, but also to ones that usually enjoy it. It is a piece of women empowerment which shall be promoted as such, given the social statuses of the poets featured. Talking about love and heartbreak, I also found it as an inspiration to get better, to move on from past relationships and heartbreak.