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A review by jenpaul13
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
4.0
Beloved stories of our youth might have women believing that there are limited roles that they can inhabit but the collection of poetry within Amanda Lovelace's The Princess Saves Herself In This One demonstrates that isn't always the case.
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Not every story has a happy ending nor does someone need to be saved by someone else, which is highlighted through the poems within the sections of princess, damsel, queen, and you. The first three sections work through the author's varied experiences in and with life throughout all its various stages of maturation and development, while the last section is aimed toward the reader of the collection as a more all-encompassing you with advice on being a woman and more generally a human.
The text was powerfully refined to the most essential parts and filled with emotion, even if it was on the exceedingly personal side and made me a bit uncomfortable with the level of detail that was provided. While I'm not someone who studied poetry as extensively as prose, I can recognize that there will be readers who don't necessarily view this as poetry but instead minimalist prose that has been visually spaced out to have the appearance of poetry; this format makes it easy to quickly consume the small snippets of text, which conveys ideas of import for feminism as it revises a more traditional narrative style. While it doesn't present an abundance of nuanced concepts to deeply further the more serious conversation that the ideas broach, there's a simplicity to the thoughts presented that make it easy to connect with on a primal teenage angst level, which had the inner, younger me remembering and relating to what was shared.
Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: http://makinggoodstories.wordpress.com/.
Not every story has a happy ending nor does someone need to be saved by someone else, which is highlighted through the poems within the sections of princess, damsel, queen, and you. The first three sections work through the author's varied experiences in and with life throughout all its various stages of maturation and development, while the last section is aimed toward the reader of the collection as a more all-encompassing you with advice on being a woman and more generally a human.
The text was powerfully refined to the most essential parts and filled with emotion, even if it was on the exceedingly personal side and made me a bit uncomfortable with the level of detail that was provided. While I'm not someone who studied poetry as extensively as prose, I can recognize that there will be readers who don't necessarily view this as poetry but instead minimalist prose that has been visually spaced out to have the appearance of poetry; this format makes it easy to quickly consume the small snippets of text, which conveys ideas of import for feminism as it revises a more traditional narrative style. While it doesn't present an abundance of nuanced concepts to deeply further the more serious conversation that the ideas broach, there's a simplicity to the thoughts presented that make it easy to connect with on a primal teenage angst level, which had the inner, younger me remembering and relating to what was shared.
Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.