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geektastically's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
coriandercilantro's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
5.0
A masterclass in constructung a thematic narrative in a book of poetry. Bonkers book. Famtastic.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Colonisation, Blood, Child death, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Suicide
lifeinpoetry's review
5.0
Excerpts:
Night is my mother. She wears many faces, has seen the glittering hand of God.
She pulls silver from the sky, names from the sea like fish.
There is enough. There is enough.
There is never enough.
(from “An Orphan Considers the Hand of God”)
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Let us talk about light. How does your mother
pronounce it. How does your father bury it.
How does your brother borrow against it,
betting everything God promised.
(from “Behind This Door Is a Siberian Tiger”)
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Wife. The kerosene of grief. It doesn’t age well. It degrades. / Grief is a kind of time.
(from “History of Domestication”)
Night is my mother. She wears many faces, has seen the glittering hand of God.
She pulls silver from the sky, names from the sea like fish.
There is enough. There is enough.
There is never enough.
(from “An Orphan Considers the Hand of God”)
—
Let us talk about light. How does your mother
pronounce it. How does your father bury it.
How does your brother borrow against it,
betting everything God promised.
(from “Behind This Door Is a Siberian Tiger”)
—
Wife. The kerosene of grief. It doesn’t age well. It degrades. / Grief is a kind of time.
(from “History of Domestication”)