kareemartin's review against another edition
1.0
I didn’t connect with any of the poems and they all felt the same to me.
lagobond's review against another edition
1.0
So I love Alice Walker's prose, but
Splitting sentences
Into
Multiple lines
Does
Not
A poem make.
***
This was a disappointment. It honestly feels like the stuff I wrote in high school, when I thought myself all worldly and grown-up, except I had already developed enough self-awareness to know that my "poems" weren't fit to share with the world.
Splitting sentences
Into
Multiple lines
Does
Not
A poem make.
***
This was a disappointment. It honestly feels like the stuff I wrote in high school, when I thought myself all worldly and grown-up, except I had already developed enough self-awareness to know that my "poems" weren't fit to share with the world.
hollyevaallen's review against another edition
2.0
Read it in one sitting. Short, simple poems. Nothing inherently wrong with them but they weren’t the style of poetry I prefer. I’m partial to longer narrative works while these were short, simplistic and full of haiku-like imagery.
suitecake's review against another edition
1.0
Inconsistent, but generally bad. Prone to simple iterations on clichés, seen in $4 greeting cards and inspirational magnets on grandma's refrigerator. Frequent line breaks to the point of distraction. You get the sense that this is just a habit for Walker, and not in service of the underlying music. The effect is a superficial, unsatisfying rhythm, where each poem feels much like the next.
The only poem that really made me stop and feel was They Made Love, whereas I probably rolled my eyes a dozen times through the rest of the book.
The only poem that really made me stop and feel was They Made Love, whereas I probably rolled my eyes a dozen times through the rest of the book.