adayafterautumn's review
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
I loved the alternative formatting and it really served each poem but I feel like this is one of those collections I'll appreciate more the more I come back to it
arathenerd's review
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
This was so confusing at times.
Ps: maybe if I keep reading poetry books I will either find one that actually makes sense to me or I will grow smart enough to understand them as they are. So far, I still don’t know which one is it.
Ps: maybe if I keep reading poetry books I will either find one that actually makes sense to me or I will grow smart enough to understand them as they are. So far, I still don’t know which one is it.
laserdiscreader's review
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
I'm bad at judging poetry. Three stars feels like a joke and yet it's what my brain says fits my feelings towards this collection.
I did love the formatting of the poems, with structures flowing and wrapping and even repeating with new perspectives.
I did love the formatting of the poems, with structures flowing and wrapping and even repeating with new perspectives.
lerhodes's review
4.0
Some of my favorite lines:
Let someone’s lover fashion from the ocean / of my solitude a shoreline for their sins to wash up on
Maybe the trade-off for resurrection is shame vast enough to kill us
In the name of not vanishing just a little longer
— in defense of my roommates dog
We echo what we love / to keep it
Born w/ everything it knows / already in its blood
— inside joke
Enjoyed the moment you had no one left / to disappoint before remembering why
It is not the moon’s light that demands our praise / but the space it travels / to reach us
— Asami writes to korra for three years
That’s what it means to become a light / year, to become memory: never stay long enough to speak belonging the way the ocean pronounces the sky
— frequent flyer program
If I just believe in anything, I choose this: my lover / whispering, in my next life, I want to be the bird that rests on your branches—knowing the whole while / in my next life, I want to be / is already a complete sentence
— in my next life as a fruit tree
Choose a hell / of your own making over the hell that unmakes you. Flower / a garden of rage & eat & eat & eat.
— Wei ying tells me about resurrection
The mandarin word / to bear / * / is written knife / over heart
— Phoning home to tell my grandmother I survived a hate crime
At the end of my shadow (there is a man)
— sayang
Bury her / name under a tongue
— that time I thought phoebe bridgers…
Let someone’s lover fashion from the ocean / of my solitude a shoreline for their sins to wash up on
Maybe the trade-off for resurrection is shame vast enough to kill us
In the name of not vanishing just a little longer
— in defense of my roommates dog
We echo what we love / to keep it
Born w/ everything it knows / already in its blood
— inside joke
Enjoyed the moment you had no one left / to disappoint before remembering why
It is not the moon’s light that demands our praise / but the space it travels / to reach us
— Asami writes to korra for three years
That’s what it means to become a light / year, to become memory: never stay long enough to speak belonging the way the ocean pronounces the sky
— frequent flyer program
If I just believe in anything, I choose this: my lover / whispering, in my next life, I want to be the bird that rests on your branches—knowing the whole while / in my next life, I want to be / is already a complete sentence
— in my next life as a fruit tree
Choose a hell / of your own making over the hell that unmakes you. Flower / a garden of rage & eat & eat & eat.
— Wei ying tells me about resurrection
The mandarin word / to bear / * / is written knife / over heart
— Phoning home to tell my grandmother I survived a hate crime
At the end of my shadow (there is a man)
— sayang
Bury her / name under a tongue
— that time I thought phoebe bridgers…