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torchlab's Reviews (135)
02/26/2024: Bumping up my review half a star and adding a written explanation.
I reread this recently and I do think it is meant to be deliberately frustrating. Or at least not trying to hide how annoying Sheila is as a character. I don't know, I kind of admire that. This book is, to put it mildly, not for everyone - but if you are a person whom it is for, watch out.
I reread this recently and I do think it is meant to be deliberately frustrating. Or at least not trying to hide how annoying Sheila is as a character. I don't know, I kind of admire that. This book is, to put it mildly, not for everyone - but if you are a person whom it is for, watch out.
This is a delightful, tender, enigmatic little book. It tricks you into thinking it is simple: its childlike tone and easy playfulness belie a cutting wit and sophisticated artistic intent that can only come from someone with the expansive, idiosyncratic mind of its author. I am not an avid reader of poetry, but some of the pieces in here are among the best poems I’ve ever read. Each one is like a small door to some imaginary but no less real place where a house can be built of light, where orchestra audiences can fly, where a painting can be made with all the blood in your body.
