carlasofiaferreira's review
5.0
Compulsively readable, I devoured this in one sitting. Right from the start, Phillips knocks it out of the park with the opening poem, "Ladyfingers," and the chapbook stays consistently strong from there. Some favorite lines below:
"and wouldn't god use / they for their pronouns // or not use any at all // my hands made by some / myths in their image // bead full at the knuckles"
— Ladyfingers
"[...] like the seven-year // cicada I don't know / where all this anger // lives when it's not / winged"
— You're Filthy Cute And Baby You Know It
"Often blame sits loose / on my hipbones—clay thrown // on the wheel, spun unfingered to an apple / bottom. Sometimes my body is // a mixed metaphor, fixed brass / and a heaving sea in a season // of storms."
— Heavy (After Hieu Minh Nguyen)
If you're looking for a quick and captivating read, a strong recommendation to pick this book!
"and wouldn't god use / they for their pronouns // or not use any at all // my hands made by some / myths in their image // bead full at the knuckles"
— Ladyfingers
"[...] like the seven-year // cicada I don't know / where all this anger // lives when it's not / winged"
— You're Filthy Cute And Baby You Know It
"Often blame sits loose / on my hipbones—clay thrown // on the wheel, spun unfingered to an apple / bottom. Sometimes my body is // a mixed metaphor, fixed brass / and a heaving sea in a season // of storms."
— Heavy (After Hieu Minh Nguyen)
If you're looking for a quick and captivating read, a strong recommendation to pick this book!
devrose's review
1.0
1.5 stars
I finished this book yesterday and don’t remember anything about it besides wondering how all these poets don’t understand how to use punctuation. For the poems without punctuation it was hard to figure out where a sentence started and where one ended and it was like it was going on and on and on and on. I probably would have not finished, but the book was only 33 pages so it was hard not to finish.
I finished this book yesterday and don’t remember anything about it besides wondering how all these poets don’t understand how to use punctuation. For the poems without punctuation it was hard to figure out where a sentence started and where one ended and it was like it was going on and on and on and on. I probably would have not finished, but the book was only 33 pages so it was hard not to finish.
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