beckyisbookish's review
2.0
The language was beautiful but I really felt like the violence, sexuality and angst was a bit juvenile. The poems towards the end had some lovely wording but all in all I think I could be related to the emotion and enjoyed the collection more when I was a teenager.
taschenb's review against another edition
2.0
When it comes to poetry, I can never tell if I just don't *get* it or if my criticisms are valid. But many of the choices were jolting and, for me, took away from the experience and mood. Italics, parentheses—all these additions that jolted me from the flow of words and seemed odd and out of place. I liked the overall perspectives of the poems, but not necessarily their structure, and had a hard time deciphering what the heck was going on or whyyy (God, why??) something was being talked about. Again, though, it may be a "it's not you, it's me" situation.
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