A review by pennym_
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer

reflective medium-paced

3.0

i really struggle to get poetry. after stumbling across boyer's poem "what resembles the grave but isn't" earlier this year and feeling kicked in the gut for the first time by a piece of poetry, i had to check out her backlist. i figured since this is more essay collection than poetry collection, it could work well for me. but unfortunately a lot of this went over my head. it's very intertextual, and i missed a lot of the references. i did really love her writing and perspective when i was able to grasp it, but mostly this just isn't the format that resonates with me