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jesshooves's review against another edition
“They are removing / my beautiful costumes from me, / Scouring clean the sweet / Smear of dream. / And now I see / The damaged animal / As it begins / To stir / From beneath / Its chrysalis / Of freezing ice.”
—From “How the End Begins”
—From “How the End Begins”
ifpoetshadmerch's review against another edition
5.0
Recommended by a poetry professor ages ago, and man, what a special treasure it is to have someone who has read my writing make a recommendation that hits just right. A hauntingly beautiful collection. I loved Cruz’s imagery, her ability to remake words using repetition. How the End Begins thrusts this world into the underworld, recognizes all the nightmares of living. Shivers.
loreboy's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
bildungswalton's review against another edition
3.0
A lot of this was beautifully written but it felt monolithic and depressing in a way that didn’t speak to me. I just couldn’t connect with it. DNF for now
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