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armedwithabook's review against another edition
2.0
This collection starts with an introduction from Robert Montgomery where he says that for him, new poetry in English, should be free of the English language itself. He finds Greta's work to be this way. I would agree with him that the words that she uses and the imaginary she tries to project in the reader's mind is something out of the ordinary. However, the disadvantage of breaking away from normal writing is that it distances the people who love reading in it. A collection about motherhood, female identity, parenthood, I was fascinated by the concept but the poems themselves appeared disjoint to me.
The book is divided into four sections with each section housing its own collection of poems. I could not make sense of many of the poems, never mind relate them to the bigger theme. I am not even sure if the way I interpreted the poems I could understand were even supposed to be that way! There is one that I think talks about the possibility of dying at childbirth but as complicated as it is, I have no way of saying if that is what I wanted to take away from it or was the poem really about that? Come to think of it, something that leaves so much room for interpretation is unique in itself. I am usually able to visualize what is going on, and feel the sentiments being conveyed in poems, but this collection only brought that about ever so often.
Overall, this was a unique experience. I am thankful to the publisher and author for making an ARC available via NetGalley.
The book is divided into four sections with each section housing its own collection of poems. I could not make sense of many of the poems, never mind relate them to the bigger theme. I am not even sure if the way I interpreted the poems I could understand were even supposed to be that way! There is one that I think talks about the possibility of dying at childbirth but as complicated as it is, I have no way of saying if that is what I wanted to take away from it or was the poem really about that? Come to think of it, something that leaves so much room for interpretation is unique in itself. I am usually able to visualize what is going on, and feel the sentiments being conveyed in poems, but this collection only brought that about ever so often.
Overall, this was a unique experience. I am thankful to the publisher and author for making an ARC available via NetGalley.
ratherbereading's review
5.0
Thanks to the publisher for directly reaching out to read this one. I thought this was much longer than a typical book of poetry, but overall still good. Bellamacina writes in a style I have not come across yet, but I loved it and I really enjoyed the length of her poems (being not too long). One of my favorites was 'Clear Water'.
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