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mattleesharp's review against another edition
3.0
I received this book through NetGalley in exchange for feedback and review.
This collection starts out really strong. Gianelli injects interesting questions and meaning into some of these poems. Stutter is easily the best poem of the book and shows off this singular and unique voice that you don't really hear in much of the rest of the collection. I've come back to that poem a couple times since I got the book, but I think the collection as a whole is sadly a little forgettable. There are a few too many poems that just kind of act as filler. No major criticisms. It's worth the read, but definitely only if you read a good amount of poetry already.
This collection starts out really strong. Gianelli injects interesting questions and meaning into some of these poems. Stutter is easily the best poem of the book and shows off this singular and unique voice that you don't really hear in much of the rest of the collection. I've come back to that poem a couple times since I got the book, but I think the collection as a whole is sadly a little forgettable. There are a few too many poems that just kind of act as filler. No major criticisms. It's worth the read, but definitely only if you read a good amount of poetry already.
scribblepost's review against another edition
5.0
A remarkable collection. I found these poems full of wistfulness, wonderment, and enormous empathy. So many good ones, but some particular loves: 'How the Light Is Spent,' 'Reflections,' and the parting comfort of 'The Opposite of Sugar.'
em_jay's review against another edition
4.0
This book of poetry was lovely. I adore the integration of nature, the environment, and the frequent appearance of the moon. I feel this work pulls the reader into the author's world filled with flora and fauna. Simply a great read to remind us of relationships and what the seasons have to offer.
wanderlustlover's review against another edition
4.0
"I never knew ecstasy could arrive at so many angles.'
This line perfectly encompassed my feelings as I fell through the words of Adam Giannelli, the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, in his new volume, Tremulous Hinge. I feel so many times as though I turned translucent and the words flowed through me naming me a million times. The author clearly bears a love for all English language and very much loves baring the sins and glories of such in every way that he can.
The images evoked by the words of his lines are enough to make one feel as thought they've, again, come to the time of their life where you are falling in to love, falling out of love, experiencing loneliness, death, the struggle to define what identity is and the path of how to find it, before, during, and after one does. This is gorgeous and it we find ourselves in the world and brings as, it's said best in Sealevell;
"Say it in one breath; home"
Thank you to Netgalley and University of Iowa Press for this advanced copy.
This line perfectly encompassed my feelings as I fell through the words of Adam Giannelli, the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, in his new volume, Tremulous Hinge. I feel so many times as though I turned translucent and the words flowed through me naming me a million times. The author clearly bears a love for all English language and very much loves baring the sins and glories of such in every way that he can.
The images evoked by the words of his lines are enough to make one feel as thought they've, again, come to the time of their life where you are falling in to love, falling out of love, experiencing loneliness, death, the struggle to define what identity is and the path of how to find it, before, during, and after one does. This is gorgeous and it we find ourselves in the world and brings as, it's said best in Sealevell;
"Say it in one breath; home"
Thank you to Netgalley and University of Iowa Press for this advanced copy.
mattleesharp's review
3.0
I received this book through NetGalley in exchange for feedback and review.
This collection starts out really strong. Gianelli injects interesting questions and meaning into some of these poems. Stutter is easily the best poem of the book and shows off this singular and unique voice that you don't really hear in much of the rest of the collection. I've come back to that poem a couple times since I got the book, but I think the collection as a whole is sadly a little forgettable. There are a few too many poems that just kind of act as filler. No major criticisms. It's worth the read, but definitely only if you read a good amount of poetry already.
This collection starts out really strong. Gianelli injects interesting questions and meaning into some of these poems. Stutter is easily the best poem of the book and shows off this singular and unique voice that you don't really hear in much of the rest of the collection. I've come back to that poem a couple times since I got the book, but I think the collection as a whole is sadly a little forgettable. There are a few too many poems that just kind of act as filler. No major criticisms. It's worth the read, but definitely only if you read a good amount of poetry already.
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