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A review by megsginell
Sweet, Young, & Worried by Blythe Baird
5.0
Sweet, Young, & Worried is a powerhouse of vulnerability, touching on themes of shame, violence to self, expectations, and what happens to girls in this society…how we come to hate our bodies, what that looks like.
Baird explores everything from sexuality, relationships, and the effects mothers can have on their children. The yearning for acceptance, the feeling of being never good enough.
Reading Blthye Baird is like a returning to myself, the part of me I bury and am too afraid to look at.
She voices it all.
Her work is both beautiful and devastating. In Baird’s personal and raw style of writing, words become meaning, which becomes an unburdening, which becomes both power and healing. And that’s what makes it so important
Thanks to NetGalley and Button Poetry to read and review this work.
TW- abortion, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, trauma
Baird explores everything from sexuality, relationships, and the effects mothers can have on their children. The yearning for acceptance, the feeling of being never good enough.
Reading Blthye Baird is like a returning to myself, the part of me I bury and am too afraid to look at.
She voices it all.
Her work is both beautiful and devastating. In Baird’s personal and raw style of writing, words become meaning, which becomes an unburdening, which becomes both power and healing. And that’s what makes it so important
Thanks to NetGalley and Button Poetry to read and review this work.
TW- abortion, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, trauma