A review by curlykira
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

3.75

Reminiscent of Sylvia Plath, the long form poetry was beautiful, haunting and vulnerable. It reads like a Lana Del Rey song, especially “Hope is a Dangerous Thing For a Woman Like Me To Have” which is one of my favourite songs by her. My only issue would be the haikus at the end. They seemed unnecessary and tacked on to fill space. They didn’t have the same power as the rest of the poems. Maybe if they’d been scattered among the other poems it would have had a different effect.