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kaeliwolf's review
3.0
I would rate this collection better, but honestly, the author used so much advanced English that I had a hard time understanding what they were saying half the time. Although it did teach me some statistics that I didn't know and some new topics to research and be angry about.
taylersimon22's review
5.0
How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín is a poetry collection ravaged by generational trauma, rape, internalized racism (which seems too weak of a concept for the internal ravages of white supremacy), and colonialism. Róisín is torn apart by these feelings and left with the feelings of being unlovable. There is an in-betweenness of these poems. Love for a mother who mostly taught hate. Brown skin in a black-and-white world. Living between countries and cultures in search of home.
Through these poems, she exposes the pulsating wounds to unapologetically bleed on the page, yet exposing these wounds to oxygen in order to heal. These poems are sharp, a weapon against colonialism and white supremacy. After reading these poems, I didn't quite feel a resolution or hope, but I felt like being stitched together carefully, yet clumsily. I felt a continuance, a will to keep going, a permission to accept love from herself instead of searching for it externally.
These poems are for the sad girlies, the cry-when-they're-mad girlies, the looking-for-love-but-it-right-there-all-along girlies.
Through these poems, she exposes the pulsating wounds to unapologetically bleed on the page, yet exposing these wounds to oxygen in order to heal. These poems are sharp, a weapon against colonialism and white supremacy. After reading these poems, I didn't quite feel a resolution or hope, but I felt like being stitched together carefully, yet clumsily. I felt a continuance, a will to keep going, a permission to accept love from herself instead of searching for it externally.
These poems are for the sad girlies, the cry-when-they're-mad girlies, the looking-for-love-but-it-right-there-all-along girlies.
danacanterino's review
3.0
3/5
No soy fan de la poesía, porque siento que no la termino de entender, y varias veces me pasó esto con este libro, pero... No tanto. Creo que eso se debe a que la autora es bastante cruda al decir lo que piensa, y no se anda con tantas florituras a la hora de escribir, sino que pone todo en el papel. Me gustó mucho eso, esa forma de poesía directa, que sin dejar de ser hermosa, habla de lleno de lo que quiere.
Es un libro cortito, pero tardé bastante en leerlo porque lo hice de a poco, dos o tres poemas cada ciertos días, cuando tenía ganas y siento que lo disfruté mucho. Mis favoritos (algunos me olvidé de marcalos), fueron "I really really care, don't you?", "I'm two halves of the moon, I'm still evolving" y "Neu Land".
No soy fan de la poesía, porque siento que no la termino de entender, y varias veces me pasó esto con este libro, pero... No tanto. Creo que eso se debe a que la autora es bastante cruda al decir lo que piensa, y no se anda con tantas florituras a la hora de escribir, sino que pone todo en el papel. Me gustó mucho eso, esa forma de poesía directa, que sin dejar de ser hermosa, habla de lleno de lo que quiere.
Es un libro cortito, pero tardé bastante en leerlo porque lo hice de a poco, dos o tres poemas cada ciertos días, cuando tenía ganas y siento que lo disfruté mucho. Mis favoritos (algunos me olvidé de marcalos), fueron "I really really care, don't you?", "I'm two halves of the moon, I'm still evolving" y "Neu Land".
thejejo's review
4.0
Wishing this was spooky ghost poetry, but it was really amazing so I’ll forgive the author hahaha.
Can anyone recommend a spooky poetry book?
Can anyone recommend a spooky poetry book?
aya_hmaida's review
3.0
This book isn't necessarily my cup of tea, and it tackles subjects that I don't correlate with.
But reading this poetry made me very emotional. The feelings and experiences this woman wrote about put me in a state of sadness, almost grieve of what women go through.
But reading this poetry made me very emotional. The feelings and experiences this woman wrote about put me in a state of sadness, almost grieve of what women go through.