lauren_endnotes's review against another edition
2.0
Considering this was a National Book Award finalist for poetry I was expecting much more... May have just been the style - lots of repetitions of phrases and weird line breaks.
aku_no_yume's review against another edition
5.0
This was such a beautiful book.
I didn't mind the punctuation, if anything I think it enhances the experience.
Reading some parts gave me goosebumps and I loved every bit of it.
Definitely recommend♡
I didn't mind the punctuation, if anything I think it enhances the experience.
Reading some parts gave me goosebumps and I loved every bit of it.
Definitely recommend♡
taratearex's review against another edition
1.0
Eh, I was not into this style of poetry, there are some beautiful phrases and lines, but overall the style is really hard to read- the line breaks aren't at the end of a phrase, but somewhere random in the middle, sometimes it works as a stream of consciousness and other times I felt like I was editing, not reading. Also too many religious references, not into it.
mattpr_co's review against another edition
5.0
Recommended by a caller on Beautiful/Anonymous. Glad I found it.
westonheartswords's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
piccoline's review against another edition
5.0
Powerful collection. I love Harrison's style. Her use of the absence of punctuation is brilliant and consistently rewards the extra effort it requires of the reader. (You also grow to appreciate how much more attentive it trains you to be, page by page.)
It's also true that I'm pretty vulnerable to the subject of these poems at the moment, but I'm pretty sure they're actually good and not just that I needed them right now.
It's also true that I'm pretty vulnerable to the subject of these poems at the moment, but I'm pretty sure they're actually good and not just that I needed them right now.
blatheringben's review against another edition
5.0
Recommended, especially for those with religious backgrounds or upbringings. Most poems were formatted in a way you have to find the rhythm and phrasing yourself. It made reading the poems akin to settling into a meditative state. Very enjoyable.
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