2000s's review
3.5
Some of the most mind-boggling poetry I've read. I'm having trouble even describing what this was about besides grief and its manifestations. I was stumped with most of the poems just because the use of language is so complex and each word is unexpected. None of it sounds natural but I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way, just that her craft and vocabulary is next-level and everything is so layered that you really have to go line-by-line (at least I did).
I feel like I don't totally know enough about poetry for this one, but there were some really harrowing lines and I admired the puzzle of it. I definitely need to revisit it though because it's a little brainy even for me.
I feel like I don't totally know enough about poetry for this one, but there were some really harrowing lines and I admired the puzzle of it. I definitely need to revisit it though because it's a little brainy even for me.
hannahvwarren's review
5.0
Muriel Leung's Bone Confetti combines some of the most evocative language I've ever encountered as the poet haunts the reader with elegy. This collection is full of ghosts who will follow you long after you finish reading.
"I am making an inventory of all things. The body pulp in mason jars.
Something of consequence. An ash of you."
"I am making an inventory of all things. The body pulp in mason jars.
Something of consequence. An ash of you."
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