Reviews

Swan Hammer: An Instructor's Guide to Mirrors by Maggie Graber

studio_rat04's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

3.0

nicolelongstaff's review

2.0

“Swan hammer” has a few select poems which hit right where they want to, but others that fall short. Some of the work is heartbreakingly excellent and worth hearing, but others seem repeated and known, or entirely to niche to find a middle ground with. 

eleennaeisloved's review

reflective fast-paced

3.5

lenamuriel's review

So boring

seherina's review

challenging

2.5

Thank you NetGalley and Wheelbarrow Books for the chance to read and review Swan Hammer!

I wish I could love Swan Hammer, but I just can't! When it started out I thought this would be amazing, but as soon as I gave the book a break I just couldn't' get back into things. I finished it, but I just couldn't connect with anything.

This may be something I re-read in the future, just to see if I need to read this in a different space to enjoy it.

forlorn_traveller's review

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

2.75

circereads's review

5.0

I really loved the use of the liminal in this collection, and the way the poet tied in math with nature, poetry, and queerness in this collection. There are lines and ideas in this collection that will live rent free in my head, the ode to graph paper and her love of Ms. Frizzle -- especially Kate McKinnon -- and the derby girls who aren't afraid to get black and blue to get real and beautiful.