belle_fiction's review against another edition
5.0
A WONDERFUL AND EXQUISITE READ!
Tinderbox Lawn is a beautiful collection of prose poems, nothing like I have ever come across before! Her words are effortlessly stunning, painting the most lucid and ethereal images in my mind.
Guess writes a lot about love, marriage and sexuality creating prose poems which read like magic. I took my time reading this slim collection because it is all too easy to get carried away and devour them all in one go.
There are sooooooo many beautiful lines in this book, for example:
'Water caressed us, the thick blue knife slicing away burnt boards and glass.'
'...you hear the voice of the girl in the box, the voice everyone else mistakes for spring.'
'Freeways run through fiberglass skin.'
'She moved faster in stillness than I moved in speed.'
'I release doves from the crook of her crooked smile.'
'...a whistle from the lips of her lover on the cusp of a spiral stair.'
'The diamonds are glass. We shine like they're real.'
Guess' work is simply a poetic pool I could happily drown in. A fabulous collection that will open anyone's mind to unusual wordplay and some unforgettable lines.
A MUST READ FOR ALL!
Tinderbox Lawn is a beautiful collection of prose poems, nothing like I have ever come across before! Her words are effortlessly stunning, painting the most lucid and ethereal images in my mind.
Guess writes a lot about love, marriage and sexuality creating prose poems which read like magic. I took my time reading this slim collection because it is all too easy to get carried away and devour them all in one go.
There are sooooooo many beautiful lines in this book, for example:
'Water caressed us, the thick blue knife slicing away burnt boards and glass.'
'...you hear the voice of the girl in the box, the voice everyone else mistakes for spring.'
'Freeways run through fiberglass skin.'
'She moved faster in stillness than I moved in speed.'
'I release doves from the crook of her crooked smile.'
'...a whistle from the lips of her lover on the cusp of a spiral stair.'
'The diamonds are glass. We shine like they're real.'
Guess' work is simply a poetic pool I could happily drown in. A fabulous collection that will open anyone's mind to unusual wordplay and some unforgettable lines.
A MUST READ FOR ALL!
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