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A review by mustardseed
Derivative Faith by Jollin Tan
4.0
as a regular narcissist, of course i have to pick up a book that contains my name. i finished this in one sitting. truly confessional poetry, it's a heartrendering meditation on grief (alternate chapters are poetry-as-prose, a singular storyline on the process of grief), faith and the personal (such as the body).
favourite poems:
- 17 - “She is in the present reliving the moment she made the mistake of thinking that his ashes were solid enough to sink her hands into; to hold him alive and not let him go.”
- faith (of course, but i relate) - “This is what makes you pick / yourself up and move, / impuslive like the crazy, passionate / ones, going in search of the next hurricane.”
- locality - an evocation of seasons in singapore to paint a picture of a romance
- 07 - “Maybe all memory is fiction.”
- outpouring - on eating disorder
- ephemeral - beautiful poem on trying, and failing, to capture beauty.
favourite poems:
- 17 - “She is in the present reliving the moment she made the mistake of thinking that his ashes were solid enough to sink her hands into; to hold him alive and not let him go.”
- faith (of course, but i relate) - “This is what makes you pick / yourself up and move, / impuslive like the crazy, passionate / ones, going in search of the next hurricane.”
- locality - an evocation of seasons in singapore to paint a picture of a romance
- 07 - “Maybe all memory is fiction.”
- outpouring - on eating disorder
- ephemeral - beautiful poem on trying, and failing, to capture beauty.