Reviews

I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco Mi Corazã3n Como Una Diana by Johanny Vázquez Paz

divyareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

ajira's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad

4.0

I loved this book. The poems were striking and stirring, and I often found myself asking whoever was around me if I could read a poem or two to them so we could talk about it. Loved having both the Spanish and translated English poems together.

I don't even know what else I can briefly say here. I'm probably going to write about more about it and when I do, I'll come back and add to this review.

belladonnashrike's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

I loved this collection of poetry, but I would’ve rated it higher if the poems that entailed the poet whining about being called gringa by her peers were excluded. it read very self-pitying in just the worst way 🙄

I did love how this was written in both spanish & english, it was really great practice for me to relearn the language.

favorite poems (no particular order)

- herencias / inheritance 
- voz interna / inner voice
- imborrable / uneraseable 

- ofrezco mi corazón como una diana / I offer my heart as a target
- onanismo literario / literary onanism

- díaspora de palabras / diaspora of words

“La laringe es un collar de cuentas perdidas donde mi voz no resuena fonemas heredados.”
“The larynx is a necklace of lost beads where my voice doesn’t echo inherited phonemes.”

marijuanerareads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

girlonmangostreet's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced