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A review by danibee33
The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas
5.0
"if you look around you/ and everything is burning/ licked in flames up-reaching/ like a funeral pyre/ check if you are breathing/ if you are it stands to reason/ perhaps you're not the kindling you're the fire"
YES JILLIAN CHRISTMAS, YOU ARE INDEED THE FIRE. Jillian Christmas is magnificent and this book. THIS BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICENT BOOK. As the cover suggests, it is truly something special.
You know, I'm secretly always searching for poetry that moves me so deeply that, overcome with feeling, I stare vacantly into the grass at a public park for such a long time that a random stranger feels compelled to come check if I'm okay and ask if I need a hug. This poetry collection did that exact thing for me. And yes, I do need a hug.
More specifically I need to hug Jillian Christmas and thank her for this book that will most certainly be cherished and reread and kept in my heart for many years to come. Vancouver is lucky to have such brilliant poets, and is even more lucky to have Jillian, in all the many ways she tends to and grows the community of writers and readers alike. MMM must read!!
YES JILLIAN CHRISTMAS, YOU ARE INDEED THE FIRE. Jillian Christmas is magnificent and this book. THIS BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICENT BOOK. As the cover suggests, it is truly something special.
You know, I'm secretly always searching for poetry that moves me so deeply that, overcome with feeling, I stare vacantly into the grass at a public park for such a long time that a random stranger feels compelled to come check if I'm okay and ask if I need a hug. This poetry collection did that exact thing for me. And yes, I do need a hug.
More specifically I need to hug Jillian Christmas and thank her for this book that will most certainly be cherished and reread and kept in my heart for many years to come. Vancouver is lucky to have such brilliant poets, and is even more lucky to have Jillian, in all the many ways she tends to and grows the community of writers and readers alike. MMM must read!!