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shiloniz's review
5.0
"I refuse to wear the nettle shirt. / The one I once thought I had / to wear, to make you good, / to make you love me."
This is a collection all about reclaiming power, whether it be from our younger self and the expectations we put on our life, from boys and men who have hurt or abused us, from politicians and those who seek to strip us from our rights, from a world so blisteringly magical that you'd have to be truly blind not to notice it's majesty and the devastation we are causing to it, to each other. Catherine uses fairy tale, mythology, like in the series of poems throughout the collection titled The Angel of Disassociation, and the natural world and weather phenomenon to traverse the boundaries between grief and joy, oscillating between the two like her own person funnel cloud. She explores love, trauma, abuse, gender, environmental collapse, gun violence, magic, climate change, harassment, brunch, cats, joy all through her very specific lens, that of an enigmatic sailor-moon-esque survivor.
This is a collection all about reclaiming power, whether it be from our younger self and the expectations we put on our life, from boys and men who have hurt or abused us, from politicians and those who seek to strip us from our rights, from a world so blisteringly magical that you'd have to be truly blind not to notice it's majesty and the devastation we are causing to it, to each other. Catherine uses fairy tale, mythology, like in the series of poems throughout the collection titled The Angel of Disassociation, and the natural world and weather phenomenon to traverse the boundaries between grief and joy, oscillating between the two like her own person funnel cloud. She explores love, trauma, abuse, gender, environmental collapse, gun violence, magic, climate change, harassment, brunch, cats, joy all through her very specific lens, that of an enigmatic sailor-moon-esque survivor.
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