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A review by dmsehnert
The Awful Rowing Toward God by Anne Sexton
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
oh, anne! absolutely stunning.
favorite lines include:
and God was there like an island I had not rowed to. - rowing
he does not envy the soul so much
he is all soul
but he would like to house it in a body
and come down
and give it a bath
now and then - the earth
the joy that isn’t shared, i’ve heard, dies young - welcome morning
…and when i wake
nixon will have declared the vietnam war is over. no more deaths, body by body.
(But this will be old news
before you read my words.
old and senile.)
Still i will hear this and will be happy,
happy kind of,
for i know there will be more wars
and more deaths.
and the headlines will be no more than a petal upon a crater. - is it true?
favorite lines include:
and God was there like an island I had not rowed to. - rowing
he does not envy the soul so much
he is all soul
but he would like to house it in a body
and come down
and give it a bath
now and then - the earth
the joy that isn’t shared, i’ve heard, dies young - welcome morning
…and when i wake
nixon will have declared the vietnam war is over. no more deaths, body by body.
(But this will be old news
before you read my words.
old and senile.)
Still i will hear this and will be happy,
happy kind of,
for i know there will be more wars
and more deaths.
and the headlines will be no more than a petal upon a crater. - is it true?