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A review by leafblade
Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism by Cynthia Dewi Oka, Joyce Peseroff, Laura Fairgrieve, Wendy Xu, Maureen McLane, Jill McDonough, Lauren Clark, Lauren K. Alleyne, Ada Limón, Stacey Waite, Laura Theobald, Denice Frohman, Achy Obejas, Jericho Brown, Sandra Beasley, Rachel Zucker, Tyehimba Jess, Anastacia-Renee, Jade Lascelles, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ellen Hagan, Dorothea Lasky, Judith Baumel, Kimberly Johnson, Jacqueline Jones Lamon, Mahogany L. Browne, Amanda Johnston, Hope Wabuke, Kim Addonizio, Safia Elhillo, Naomi Shihab Nye, francine j. harris, Patricia Smith, Anne Waldman, Kwame Dawes, Monika Zobel, Jenny Johnson, Rachel McKibbens, Ryka Aoki, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Danielle Chapman, James Allen Hall, Elizabeth Acevedo, Christopher Soto, Karyna McGlynn, Mary Ruefle, Kaveh Akbar, Trish Salah
Did not finish book.
DNF @ 43% (marking it as read tho bc of the time I spent reading it)
I got a copy of this book via NetGalley.
My main problem with this was the format. It's a mess. "Copy not for distribution" is plastered all over the book, sometimes cutting poems in half. Sometimes a poem was supposed to have separated lines (you could tell from the capitalized words mid-sentence) but it would just show as a huge wall of text, no punctuation marks. Or it did show them separated, but only until the middle of it. The name of the book also appeared italicized at random, sometimes in between lines of a poem.
The fact that there were so many authors is good, because we get as many points of view as possible. But at the same time, it affected the flow of the book immensely. I didn't feel like the order of the poems made much sense, and ultimately it was annoying. At times, I read a bunch of poems and I couldn't figure out what they were talking about, either bc they were so different from each other or bc the spacing made no sense.
This is all really frustrating because I wanted to like this, and I'm sure it covers important, heavy, current topics! It just didn't click with me.
I got a copy of this book via NetGalley.
My main problem with this was the format. It's a mess. "Copy not for distribution" is plastered all over the book, sometimes cutting poems in half. Sometimes a poem was supposed to have separated lines (you could tell from the capitalized words mid-sentence) but it would just show as a huge wall of text, no punctuation marks. Or it did show them separated, but only until the middle of it. The name of the book also appeared italicized at random, sometimes in between lines of a poem.
The fact that there were so many authors is good, because we get as many points of view as possible. But at the same time, it affected the flow of the book immensely. I didn't feel like the order of the poems made much sense, and ultimately it was annoying. At times, I read a bunch of poems and I couldn't figure out what they were talking about, either bc they were so different from each other or bc the spacing made no sense.
This is all really frustrating because I wanted to like this, and I'm sure it covers important, heavy, current topics! It just didn't click with me.