manymarvelousmoments's review against another edition
2.0
Formally, these poems are beautiful. The middling rating is because I find the premise tasteless: a straight woman claiming the voice of Emily Dickinson. I believe the poet’s ends could have been achieved without appropriating one of the few things her queer siblings have to hold onto in literary history.
itstoocliche's review
4.0
4.5
Ahhhhh I just love this book (collection) inspired by Dickinson's Master LEtters. Lucie Brock-Broido writes poetry that makes me tingle all over with envy.
Ahhhhh I just love this book (collection) inspired by Dickinson's Master LEtters. Lucie Brock-Broido writes poetry that makes me tingle all over with envy.
uniskorn's review
5.0
I ordered this book from a second-hand site and enjoyed the annotations a previous reader included in this collection. Reading someone else's thoughts on the poems and their editing suggestions (which actually made a couple poems better!) was really fun and interesting.
More to do with the actual collection--stunning. Brock-Broido has a way with words and how she chose to go about this collection was very fun for me because I love Dickinson so much. The poems that were formatted as letters were probably my favorite aside from Am Moor. And I enjoyed the notes at the back that explained where each poem's inspiration came from. I think Brock-Broido would be pleased that it was her that made me look up the Passenger Pigeon.
These were such sweet savory poems that I thoroughly enjoyed taking my time. I know I will read this collection many more times and look forward to doing so.
More to do with the actual collection--stunning. Brock-Broido has a way with words and how she chose to go about this collection was very fun for me because I love Dickinson so much. The poems that were formatted as letters were probably my favorite aside from Am Moor. And I enjoyed the notes at the back that explained where each poem's inspiration came from. I think Brock-Broido would be pleased that it was her that made me look up the Passenger Pigeon.
These were such sweet savory poems that I thoroughly enjoyed taking my time. I know I will read this collection many more times and look forward to doing so.
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