skyealexandra's review
fast-paced
1.75
i will be honest.. it kinda read like pretty ok iphone notes poetry.... granted i don't speak spanish so i can't speak to about 1/4 of the poems in here, but of the ones in english, there were probably 2 that really liked. the rest weren't bad by any means, but just incredibly unmemorable to me:(
i think i'm also just not a fan of modern poetry that sticks to a rhyme scheme? idk it feels kinda stifling to me.
i think i'm also just not a fan of modern poetry that sticks to a rhyme scheme? idk it feels kinda stifling to me.
bract4813mypacksnet's review
5.0
Woman, Woman by Angela de Hoyos is a brief book filled with startlingly beautiful poetry, meant to be savored. Understated, ironic, humorous, very personal work. People with no knowledge of Spanish might have some difficulty with a couple of the poems. I don’t think there was a poem I didn’t like, but several I adored, especially “Up to a Certain Point” appealed to me as an artist and author.
When I know my sky
to be blue
and your brush insists
on painting it
purple…
And eons of male-female relationships are encapsulated in the simple, yet caustic, words of “Lesson in Semantics”
Men, she said,
sometimes
in order to
say it
it is
necessary
to spit
the word.
My apologies to Ms. De Hoyos—the computer won’t allow me to translate the elegant formatting of her poetry here.
When I know my sky
to be blue
and your brush insists
on painting it
purple…
And eons of male-female relationships are encapsulated in the simple, yet caustic, words of “Lesson in Semantics”
Men, she said,
sometimes
in order to
say it
it is
necessary
to spit
the word.
My apologies to Ms. De Hoyos—the computer won’t allow me to translate the elegant formatting of her poetry here.
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