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carolineinthelibrary's review against another edition
4.0
I'm having a hard time balancing my love for poetry. Sometimes I hate it because I read things like "Adultolescence" which was practically Tumblr garbage, and sometimes you pick up something like this. A book of poetry that truly tells a story and feels cohesive without feeling like you're reading a novel. I enjoyed a great deal of the poetry in the book. The only poems I wasn't a huge fan of were the stream of conscious poems that I felt were hard to keep up with (but such is the style of that poetry).
sakeriver's review against another edition
I didn’t know beforehand but this was just exactly what I wanted right now. Zucker takes all of the everyday anxieties and frustrations of artmaking and motherhood and marriage and makes something amazing out of them. Moving through different registers from stream-of-consciousness to fable, this collection just hit me dead-on. So good.
cgcpoems's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Though I enjoyed the first section of this collection considerably more than the second, I really loved spending time with Zucker’s work. She’s playful, & has a poetic voice that really jumps off the page. These were just plain fun poems to read, & I’ll definitely be revisiting her work in the future.
francescamoroney's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this so much. I’m not even a New Yorker and I could totally feel the city seeping out of these pages. In addition to loving the way she interrogates everything we think we know about mothering, marriage, work.
elliotriley's review against another edition
4.0
Hovering between three and four stars. I liked it but not as much as Museum of Accidents. Looking forward to hunting down and reading the rest of her work.
pyrrhicspondee's review
5.0
The first half of this book was intriguing but quite distancing. The second half, with the stream of consciousness poems preoccupied with motherhood was AMAZING. AMAZING.
blitheandblue's review
5.0
fucking ouch. i probably reference this book in conversation weekly and am now on a journey to consume everything else zucker has ever written.
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