tiredandspice's review
4.0
Unique and fantastic. Two of my favorite bits:
"Keep out of my underworld! neither drag
me to hell
nor drag me out of it, stop filling my mouth
with coins for
some stygian
ferryman. use your words! Ask permission. I
am magic enough"
"This is how it starts. You ask if it's a love potion
and I say yes, something like that,
in the sense that love and death are indistinct things,
liquid bubbling down-throat to still the limbs,
slow the heart"
"Keep out of my underworld! neither drag
me to hell
nor drag me out of it, stop filling my mouth
with coins for
some stygian
ferryman. use your words! Ask permission. I
am magic enough"
"This is how it starts. You ask if it's a love potion
and I say yes, something like that,
in the sense that love and death are indistinct things,
liquid bubbling down-throat to still the limbs,
slow the heart"
justaboxofmoths's review
5.0
I bought this on my kindle so I could devour it immediately, but I desperately need to get my hands on a physical copy. I want to read it over and over again and fill the pages with underlines and notes and soak it all in until I know it by heart and it's being held together by hope and rubber bands. I am in love with this book.
sam8834's review against another edition
5.0
I've been carrying this magical little book around in my bag for weeks and dipping into it here and there. Love all the dark poetic recipes and histories and myths in here.
greeniezona's review
5.0
Ken at Sator Press was so helpful to me answering questions when I was first figuring out my micro press mission that I decided I needed to buy one of his books to support him. This one was the first one I picked out, and I LOVED IT SO MUCH. Part spell book, part recipe book, part mythology, part forested rural gothic. All witchy and moonlit with just a little bit of menace.
ghoulnextdoor's review
5.0
In my reading of Salt Is For Curing, it took all that I had not to devour this small book of spooky delights in one greedy instant. I feared that to do so, to ingest all of these potent magics at once, would give me a terribly heartsick sort of heartburn and yet leave me with the very worst sort of emptiness, knowing there is no more to be had. I drew it out for as long as I could stand.
thebisexualbooknerd's review against another edition
4.0
Honestly I'm not even sure what I just read. The words wound together in knots. The imagery and word choice in this is absolutely stunning, even if some concentration is required. I loved the way the book was divided up into "courses," with the final course being the title poem. My favorite of the lot was probably Kill Rockstars - a manifesto if I ever read one.
nellethiel's review
5.0
Beautiful, intricate, clever, powerful, feminist, magical, relevant. The word play and lyricism are masterful. The food metaphors persist throughout and provide a thread of connectivity between all of the poems. As a woman, I could relate to many of the sentiments expressed. Sonya cuts right to the core. I adored the occult, mythical quality of their storytelling - certainly this collection could be considered a modern fairytale.