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A review by dear_old_world
The Gospel of Breaking by Jillian Christmas
2.0
I feel a bit crappy rating a work of poetry only 2 stars, because really it's a weird thing to rate anything so personal. So I want to preface this by saying the 2 stars is not a review of the objective quality of this work. It's just that it's the best reflection of my feelings in relation to it (although this is often the case so maybe it should go without saying). It was just okay for me.
I enjoyed the exploration of the themes running through this poetry, particularly the ones regarding a daughter's relationship with her mother. Some poems I really enjoyed: the Robin Williams one and the Ma Rainey one for instance.
For the most part though, I felt it difficult to connect to the majority of the poems because every time I tried to dive into them, I would get distracted by the frequently interspersed visual gaps throughout the poems. I'm sure there are specific reasons that Christmas used these large gaps and that they simply went over my head, but it detracted from my immersion into the poetry, which is the primary reason for my 2 stars.
I enjoyed the exploration of the themes running through this poetry, particularly the ones regarding a daughter's relationship with her mother. Some poems I really enjoyed: the Robin Williams one and the Ma Rainey one for instance.
For the most part though, I felt it difficult to connect to the majority of the poems because every time I tried to dive into them, I would get distracted by the frequently interspersed visual gaps throughout the poems. I'm sure there are specific reasons that Christmas used these large gaps and that they simply went over my head, but it detracted from my immersion into the poetry, which is the primary reason for my 2 stars.