leigh_reidelberger's review
5.0
5 stars b/c I certainly be reading it a few more times. There is a lot of power and emotion in this collection. Very much loved.
Some favorites from my first read through:
-"A woman's place"
The Children's Chorus
-An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
-Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion
-What She Thinks as She Waits by the Door
-Shiv
-If 2017 was a poem title
-Ode to the Pantsuit
-Matriot Acts
-The March
Some favorites from my first read through:
-"A woman's place"
The Children's Chorus
-An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood Near My Job
-Poem Beginning with Items from The Vienna Museum of Contraception and Abortion
-What She Thinks as She Waits by the Door
-Shiv
-If 2017 was a poem title
-Ode to the Pantsuit
-Matriot Acts
-The March
emmasophierund's review against another edition
4.0
Women of Resistance is a beautiful collection of feminist poetry that cuts across ethnic, gender, and sexuality borders. This poetry is absolutely beautiful and magnificently thought provoking. A must read for lovers of feminist literature. The beautiful cover helps of course.
niyatee_narkar's review
3.0
I lacked the cultural and historical context to understand some of them. Some others were on concepts /idea/ movements I haven't yet read enough about. But the sentiment came through and I would like to reread it in a few years when I have learnt more of this world and a woman's place in it.
lo_oneill's review
4.0
“i heard a woman becomes herself the first
time she speaks
without permission
then, every word out of her mouth a riot”
Be still my beating heart….
I know that this is a terrible place to start with a book review but I love the cover of this book, it is beautiful and one that I will be adding to my physical copy bookshelf ASAP, especially now that I know what a wonderful poetry collection this is.
With massive movements such as Times Up it could be easy to believe that feminism is alive, well and understood/supported by the majority of people, however, there are a lot of people that while they support Times Up, don’t really understand the complete need and the complexities of feminism. Which is where this gem of poetry collection comes in. It is beautiful, powerful and inspiring. It shows the incredible breadth of feminism and what women from all walks of life deal with every day.
A big thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the copy in exchange for an unbiased review.
zaheerah's review against another edition
3.0
A feminist poetry collection that discusses race, gender identity and sexuality. I really enjoyed the variety of poetry styles that each contributor used. There's a variety in content and form. I am not sure sure each piece is beautiful and exciting. The collection encompasses the works of a diverse range of poets who I'll definitely want to check out. I don't read that much poetry, but this collection of works from such inspiring people was indeed a hidden gem.
readmoreyall's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent collection of poetry! Definitely some "Adult" themes and references, but I am putting on my shelf for students to browse.
alainajreads's review
3.0
I wanted to love this more but some of the poems were hard for me to grasp and felt a little dry. There were, however, some beautifully written and poignant pieces. I hope to see more feminist poetry collections in the future.
valleylore's review
1.0
[ I’d like to thank NetGalley for providing me with an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review. ]
Honestly? As soon as I laid eyes upon that beautiful cover, I knew I had to read it. The artwork along with the title just drew me in so immensely. However, I was let down — as you can no doubt tell from my one star rating.
The problem I had with this anthology, is that it doesn’t seem to flow seamlessly. It feels... cluttered and clunky and choppy and awkward and messy and I didn’t enjoy that. Though I could have gotten past that if I found that the poetry itself was good. Which it wasn’t, at least in my opinion. It felt so very tumblr-esque. Hitting enter after every three words or using a thesaurus to describe mundane things isn’t poetry. This felt so needy, in a way. I wanted to love this so much, I was ready to sing its praises but I just can’t.
Nothing seemed to make sense. One moment they’re talking about sex and the next tomatoes? I was left so confused after 96% of the poems. Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m the problem. Perhaps poetry just isn’t my thing, which is fine but I’m here to give my honest opinion and that is: I didn’t like this. It was too disorganised and nothing made sense and I wanted to DNF it at like the third poem but I pushed through and I honestly wish that I hadn’t.
Honestly? As soon as I laid eyes upon that beautiful cover, I knew I had to read it. The artwork along with the title just drew me in so immensely. However, I was let down — as you can no doubt tell from my one star rating.
The problem I had with this anthology, is that it doesn’t seem to flow seamlessly. It feels... cluttered and clunky and choppy and awkward and messy and I didn’t enjoy that. Though I could have gotten past that if I found that the poetry itself was good. Which it wasn’t, at least in my opinion. It felt so very tumblr-esque. Hitting enter after every three words or using a thesaurus to describe mundane things isn’t poetry. This felt so needy, in a way. I wanted to love this so much, I was ready to sing its praises but I just can’t.
Nothing seemed to make sense. One moment they’re talking about sex and the next tomatoes? I was left so confused after 96% of the poems. Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m the problem. Perhaps poetry just isn’t my thing, which is fine but I’m here to give my honest opinion and that is: I didn’t like this. It was too disorganised and nothing made sense and I wanted to DNF it at like the third poem but I pushed through and I honestly wish that I hadn’t.