Reviews

That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr

emquartz15's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

This is a great book. I’m in awe at how Spahr can write so logically yet so emotionally at the same time (this sounds weird but if you read it, you’ll understand). 

frankie_s's review against another edition

challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

olgasofia's review against another edition

challenging reflective

2.5

beepbeepbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

difficult necessary poems

audreymetcalf's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

torjus's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

2.5

pilesandpiles's review against another edition

2.0

I couldn't get into the privileged-person-romanticizing-Occupy-Wall-Street thing. And she does this literally, rendering OWS a lover.

kell_xavi's review against another edition

I picked this book up when it was assigned to a class in experimental feminist literature at my university, though I had no intention of taking the course. While each poem is dense, perhaps partial on its own, but perhaps also too many in its parts, the overall effect is politically and aesthetically strong.

jnepal's review against another edition

2.0

Good writer (rhythm and sound). But I didn’t like this very much. As one reviewer notes, she sounds “privileged,” like she’s romanticizing stuff and that’s never good. She sounds very detached—maybe a besetting sin of many poets. They get lost in their words and everything else suffers.

Maybe it’s just that I don’t like this style of poetry.

But I liked “Dynamic Positioning.”

actualspinster's review

4.0

i rly rly loved most of this
but i did have an issue w some of the slang that was used in here bc it didnt feel right for the author to be using it? but i cried like 4 times lol
i love non-revolution too and i am so excited for the magnificent body of revolution to come too