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Life of the Party: Poems by Olivia Gatwood

22 reviews

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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was not a fan of the style or content - many of the poems felt antithetical to the points made in the intro and others just felt like an attempt to shock the reader

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Poetry is one of those genres I don't feel like should be rated, but this was super compelling and easy for a novice like me to reflect on. Gatwood does an excellent job of capturing the latent fear female presenting people constant have of men and their capacity for violence, as well as our culture's fascination with it through the true crime content. Also, I had no idea she was the poet of the "Ode to My Bitch Face", which is a favorite of mine.

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challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

wow. olivia gatwood so skillfully connects her early experiences, our modern-day obsession with true crime, and the fears of women across the board. throughout her collection of poems, she gives gentle but firm notice to the role race plays in real women’s outcomes. and with grace, she dances around how simultaneously rational and irrational women’s fears can often be. I felt both held and challenged by the end of the book.

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