laurelinwonder's review
5.0
I inhaled inhaled this collection today, and now as I am still digesting, it is difficult to come up with the right words, with the right review for a highly intelligent, researched collection that just kind of blew my mind. I found myself alternately raging about how women "witches" were treated, how they were viewed, and how they suffered at the hands of ignorance. When not raging about that, I was so taken with Bolden's style and lyrical landscape, that left me breathless at times, because it was so precise, lovely, and terrible heartbreaking in content. This is not an overly emotional, or retelling of the Salem witch trials, this is something completely new, something vivid, startling, raw, and full of veins pulsing beneath the surface. READ this!
alisham's review
5.0
A book of poems that should be read aloud. Not just for the sounds of the words and phrases, but the way they feel in your mouth. Truly a masterwork of sound and rhythm. All incantation and alliteration. Truly a striking and breathless book.
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