![]() ![]() Moreover, I wasn’t convinced of its originality in places. Like I said, some of them were gorgeous, but some of them didn’t feel that… sophisticated, I guess? I’m not saying that all poems need to be deeply complicated and full of imagery and literary techniques, but I do feel like there’s more to poetry than just linebreaks, and in a few poems it was hard to see what else there was to it. However, I felt it was more successful as a collection than as a set of individual poems. (I’ve only just got a tablet capable of running Adobe Digital Editions, and I haven’t entirely figured out how to use it.) ![]() There were some individual poems and lines that I really liked, enough to wish I was on my Kindle and could highlight them. It’s also very relatable, as I’ll discuss in a moment. ![]() ![]() It’s powerfully feminist and it’s about reclaiming a sense of self that people have tried to take from you, and finding your own strength. I really appreciate the message of the collection, and the ideology of it. I have to admit, I’m not as blown away as people led me to believe I would be. This meant this was the first poetry I’d read in a little while. I went through a phase of reading (and writing) a lot of poetry a short while ago, but I’ve drifted a bit away from it in recent months and have let my poetry magazine subscriptions lapse. ![]()
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