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A review by schildpad
The Latest Winter by Maggie Nelson
3.0
3/4 stars.
the future of poetry is worth a whole sky full of stars, - and I am not sorry I bought this book for that poem alone. (I want to learn all the sentences so I can take it with me everywhere and whisper it to myself every time I hate writing and literature and the whole stupid world surrounding it.)
However, the rest of the poems simply did not blow me away. I enjoyed reading them, I enjoyed the conversational feel they had, as if Nelson was sharing her thoughts unfiltered after too much wine, as well as the stream of consciousness of it all, how she connected images and thoughts to each other. Some sentences/poems were really relatable as well. I just expected more.
(I might add a star though, sometimes a bit of distance is necessary in order to determine if a book or poetry stays with you. And I might be unfair to the rest of the book because I love the future of poetry so much.)
the future of poetry is worth a whole sky full of stars, - and I am not sorry I bought this book for that poem alone. (I want to learn all the sentences so I can take it with me everywhere and whisper it to myself every time I hate writing and literature and the whole stupid world surrounding it.)
However, the rest of the poems simply did not blow me away. I enjoyed reading them, I enjoyed the conversational feel they had, as if Nelson was sharing her thoughts unfiltered after too much wine, as well as the stream of consciousness of it all, how she connected images and thoughts to each other. Some sentences/poems were really relatable as well. I just expected more.
(I might add a star though, sometimes a bit of distance is necessary in order to determine if a book or poetry stays with you. And I might be unfair to the rest of the book because I love the future of poetry so much.)