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A review by alanffm
I Become a Delight to My Enemies by Sara Peters
2.0
I Become a Delight to My Enemies is a highly experimental book of poetry that tracks the abuses and consequential self-hating behavior of different women in a made up Canadian town.
There is a lot going on here thematically and Peters' ability to convey those themes is skillful and laudable considering that there is basically no plot for the first half of the book.
I have a problem with how one sided the issues in I Become a Delight to My Enemies are. So much of what the reader experiences is emotionally driven, dependent on one dimensional facades of men, and dependent on a generic understanding of patriarchal society.
The book does a lot of things right, but equally does some things terribly wrong.
There is a lot going on here thematically and Peters' ability to convey those themes is skillful and laudable considering that there is basically no plot for the first half of the book.
I have a problem with how one sided the issues in I Become a Delight to My Enemies are. So much of what the reader experiences is emotionally driven, dependent on one dimensional facades of men, and dependent on a generic understanding of patriarchal society.
The book does a lot of things right, but equally does some things terribly wrong.