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spinesinaline's review
2.0
I want to start off by saying that my rating is based on my enjoyment of this collection, not on the poet's writing.
I can see that a lot of others here really enjoyed this one but I just couldn't get the same thing out of it. I feel that some of the themes that were explored, like quietness in its different forms, motherhood, and Canadian landscapes, just weren't given enough room to develop in this short collection. Perhaps there were too many disconnected parts here to really come together to add to the reading experience.
I did prefer the more prose-like sections to the poems, which were often quite short. In part because they were so short, these poems felt deliberately confusing. I kept wavering on my rating throughout reading this collection because I'd get annoyed by the poems, then enjoy the brief prose respite, and then it was back to those poems.
Maybe the other reviewers here are at some level of poetry understanding that I haven't achieved but I was not able to connect with most of the poems here, and I really don't think that rereading this collection would help at all with my understanding them any better. Hopefully you have better luck than I did.
I can see that a lot of others here really enjoyed this one but I just couldn't get the same thing out of it. I feel that some of the themes that were explored, like quietness in its different forms, motherhood, and Canadian landscapes, just weren't given enough room to develop in this short collection. Perhaps there were too many disconnected parts here to really come together to add to the reading experience.
I did prefer the more prose-like sections to the poems, which were often quite short. In part because they were so short, these poems felt deliberately confusing. I kept wavering on my rating throughout reading this collection because I'd get annoyed by the poems, then enjoy the brief prose respite, and then it was back to those poems.
Maybe the other reviewers here are at some level of poetry understanding that I haven't achieved but I was not able to connect with most of the poems here, and I really don't think that rereading this collection would help at all with my understanding them any better. Hopefully you have better luck than I did.
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