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foggy_rosamund's review against another edition
3.0
Perillo's poetry loses points for me because her style often feels prosaic, and some of the poems feel too loose and too choppy. But overall, I enjoyed this collection a lot: Perillo writes about nature in an imaginative and fresh way: showing how nature exists on the boundaries of our cities, how pollution and natural beauty exist side by side, and the inevitability of decay and death. Her poems are morbid but never maudlin: death and illness are part of our lives, and exist in her poetry within the wilderness.
andrea_rebekah42's review against another edition
3.0
Perillo has a masterful sense of rhythm that makes her poetry a delight to read.
rluo2294's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
Again, The Body
Domestic
After Reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Stargazer
Bats
Samara
Domestic
After Reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Stargazer
Bats
Samara
ameliasbooks's review against another edition
These are really great poems. But I don't rate them, because as much as I enjoyed them and especially the tone of this collection, a lot of it went over my head, because English is not my first language. I have no problems to read novels or even non-fiction in English, but poetry is very special. I always recognise that I connect very different to poems if I read them in German.
rebekahjohnson81's review
4.0
"I don't know how many births it takes to get
reborn as not the flower but the scent."
For the weirder pieces in here that left me scratching my head, they're all worth soldiering through for lines like these. Unexpected things of beauty that emerge unexpectedly and kind of sucker punch you at the same time.
reborn as not the flower but the scent."
For the weirder pieces in here that left me scratching my head, they're all worth soldiering through for lines like these. Unexpected things of beauty that emerge unexpectedly and kind of sucker punch you at the same time.
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