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dmsehnert's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
beautiful, haunting imagery. i found myself frequently revisiting each line and would find a gem that i had missed the first time i had read it.
favorites include:
this plot, now a hotel garden.
it’s fountain gushing forth-
the slashed wrists of the Colorado
will their torched names
walk again as lake water?
will they charge a fee
to reshaped the horns
of our dull speech?
when it’s your face
that ripple silver,
not the mule deer skipping across
the creek’s forgetting.
favorites include:
this plot, now a hotel garden.
it’s fountain gushing forth-
the slashed wrists of the Colorado
will their torched names
walk again as lake water?
will they charge a fee
to reshaped the horns
of our dull speech?
when it’s your face
that ripple silver,
not the mule deer skipping across
the creek’s forgetting.
tgbuck's review against another edition
4.0
Bitsui reminds me to let words move into the shapes of feelings, rather than to try to use them to mean directly a thing. When I can let myself move through Dissolve without needing every phrase to make “sense,” something happens to me. I somehow know the insides of the words without the words having said that directly.
vedpears's review
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Strong imagery in differentiating rural vs city living in the desert through its people, customs, natural phenomenon, and materials.
jasbeingjas's review against another edition
4.0
I don’t think I totally understood this collection of poetry. There is nuance that I know went over my head. But I really loved reading it.
gitli57's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
4.0
I read this poetry collection twice through, once out loud and cannot pretend to have grasped much of it. It seems well titled to me, though. The experience of reading it was not unlike seeing the dissolve between scenes in a film. Just the dissolve, out of context, without the clarity of either scene. It is anything but user friendly, but it is starkly beautiful. It reminded me of being in Bryce Canyon and seeing sunlight reflect off a creek onto a canyon wall. Bitsui's poetry is that fleeting and elusive. If you are up for a bit of a challenge, this is entirely worth the effort.
hannahvwarren's review against another edition
"What's left in their chests--
scrapes teeth on bonemeal."
Bitui weaves langauge beautifully in this manuscipt, describing landscape and cityscape side by side.
scrapes teeth on bonemeal."
Bitui weaves langauge beautifully in this manuscipt, describing landscape and cityscape side by side.
readingwithk's review
4.0
This is the first collection of Bitsui I have read and I was impressed. His poems are super rich in imagery based on punctuation and body parts, which I really loved.
His poems aren’t ones that you can read quickly. They take a while to digest and think about, but they are very rewarding and powerful to read.
That being said, I know that this collection isn’t for everyone. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to analyze and take a deeper look into poetry.
He explores themes of addiction, the earth, and the past and future.
His poems aren’t ones that you can read quickly. They take a while to digest and think about, but they are very rewarding and powerful to read.
That being said, I know that this collection isn’t for everyone. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to analyze and take a deeper look into poetry.
He explores themes of addiction, the earth, and the past and future.
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