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shholmes's review
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death and Gore
calcifowl's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Your body told me in a dream it's never been afraid of anything.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
skudiklier's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book is amazing oh my god I can do nothing but scream.
Okay, an attempt to say something more coherent: I love how the poems in this book have so much repetition, go in circles around each other, have so many repeating themes and titles and all that. It's all incredible. Siken is just such an amazing writer, I honestly have no words to describe it.
Okay, an attempt to say something more coherent: I love how the poems in this book have so much repetition, go in circles around each other, have so many repeating themes and titles and all that. It's all incredible. Siken is just such an amazing writer, I honestly have no words to describe it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death and Death
Minor: Violence
gabbygarcia's review
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
I really enjoyed this book. I haven't picked up Crush yet, but after reading War of the Foxes, I'm really looking forward to it. There are quite a few poems you'll have to read a few times. (Even then, there are many passages I don't think I really got...). But there were also so many stunning and powerful lines that have really stuck with me. At times the collection feels like one long poem, and it's cool to see those connections within and find beauty in them.
Loved Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light, also War of the Foxes, Landscape with Several Small Fires, Detail of the Hayfield, and especially The Language of the Birds.
My favorite from the collection:
Still Life with Skulls and Bacon:
A thing and a thing and a thing held still--
you have to hold something still to find the other
things. This is speculation. You will die in your
sleep and leave everything unfinished. This is
also speculation. I had obligations: hope, but hope
negates the experience. I owe myself nothing.
I cut off my head and threw it on the ground.
I walked away. This is how we measure, walking
away. We carve up the world into feet and minutes,
to know how far from home, how many hogs
in the yard. My head just sat there. Fair enough.Â
A map without landmarks is useless. Science
dreams its dreams of knowledge--names it, pokes it
with equations. The crucial thing is not fifty
times whatever but how we got these notions: howÂ
much, how many, how far, how long. It's goodÂ
to give explicit answers, showing all the steps,Â
necessary and sufficient. Finding the dots,
connecting the dots. An interrogation of the dots.
A pip, a point, a seed, a stone. This is philosophy,
These are suppositions. If one has no apples,
one has zero apples. There is, you see, no shortage
of open problems. We carve up the world
and crown it with numbers--lumens, ounces,
decibels. All these things and what to do with them.
We carve up the world all the time.
Loved Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light, also War of the Foxes, Landscape with Several Small Fires, Detail of the Hayfield, and especially The Language of the Birds.
My favorite from the collection:
Still Life with Skulls and Bacon:
A thing and a thing and a thing held still--
you have to hold something still to find the other
things. This is speculation. You will die in your
sleep and leave everything unfinished. This is
also speculation. I had obligations: hope, but hope
negates the experience. I owe myself nothing.
I cut off my head and threw it on the ground.
I walked away. This is how we measure, walking
away. We carve up the world into feet and minutes,
to know how far from home, how many hogs
in the yard. My head just sat there. Fair enough.Â
A map without landmarks is useless. Science
dreams its dreams of knowledge--names it, pokes it
with equations. The crucial thing is not fifty
times whatever but how we got these notions: howÂ
much, how many, how far, how long. It's goodÂ
to give explicit answers, showing all the steps,Â
necessary and sufficient. Finding the dots,
connecting the dots. An interrogation of the dots.
A pip, a point, a seed, a stone. This is philosophy,
These are suppositions. If one has no apples,
one has zero apples. There is, you see, no shortage
of open problems. We carve up the world
and crown it with numbers--lumens, ounces,
decibels. All these things and what to do with them.
We carve up the world all the time.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Gore, and Violence
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