my_name_is_jess's review against another edition
4.0
Blythe Baird yet again delivers a painfully relatable and flawlessly poignant collection.
megsginell's review against another edition
5.0
Sweet, Young, & Worried is a powerhouse of vulnerability, touching on themes of shame, violence to self, expectations, and what happens to girls in this society…how we come to hate our bodies, what that looks like.
Baird explores everything from sexuality, relationships, and the effects mothers can have on their children. The yearning for acceptance, the feeling of being never good enough.
Reading Blthye Baird is like a returning to myself, the part of me I bury and am too afraid to look at.
She voices it all.
Her work is both beautiful and devastating. In Baird’s personal and raw style of writing, words become meaning, which becomes an unburdening, which becomes both power and healing. And that’s what makes it so important
Thanks to NetGalley and Button Poetry to read and review this work.
TW- abortion, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, trauma
Baird explores everything from sexuality, relationships, and the effects mothers can have on their children. The yearning for acceptance, the feeling of being never good enough.
Reading Blthye Baird is like a returning to myself, the part of me I bury and am too afraid to look at.
She voices it all.
Her work is both beautiful and devastating. In Baird’s personal and raw style of writing, words become meaning, which becomes an unburdening, which becomes both power and healing. And that’s what makes it so important
Thanks to NetGalley and Button Poetry to read and review this work.
TW- abortion, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, trauma
anneacker17's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
3.0
lore2001's review against another edition
3.0
es el 1er libro q leo d ella y pensé q m iba a encantar bc amo cómo lee en bp. but nop. even though trata temas medio fuertes lo sentí kinda rupi kaur y no m conmovió ni 1/10 so i guess i'll stick to mirar sus videos d slam
leigh_reidelberger's review against another edition
5.0
Sweet, Young, & Worried is simply stunning. This is the type of collection where you take pictures of the pages because it's so beautiful you want to share it with everyone. Poem after poem left me feeling that way.
Blythe Baird is so talented and certainly a poet to follow forever. The way she manages to perfectly capture so many intense emotions that are typically so hard to articulate. But Blythe finds the words and expresses so much intensity in her honesty. If you like poetry, read this immediately.
Some of my favorites:
Sad Girls Club
What a Body Inherits
Guilt Doesn't Love Here Anymore
Taking My Mother to a Gay Bar
Blythe Baird is so talented and certainly a poet to follow forever. The way she manages to perfectly capture so many intense emotions that are typically so hard to articulate. But Blythe finds the words and expresses so much intensity in her honesty. If you like poetry, read this immediately.
Some of my favorites:
Sad Girls Club
What a Body Inherits
Guilt Doesn't Love Here Anymore
Taking My Mother to a Gay Bar
kendylh's review against another edition
2.0
It would be so much more powerful, if I could understand the metaphors and the things she was relating to. When she said “I hid the small body in the freezer” I had not a clue what she was talking about. Most of the book I was lost. Read about the trigger warnings of this book before you read it, because there is a lot to unpack.