#poetry reviews

[bookspotlight]

Review Roundup: The Orc Who Saved Christmas (2023), No Period (2020), She Was the Storm (2018), Super Gay (2022), Symphony of Secrets (2022)

Book reviews here.

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[randomgirl005]

[outerblog]

It was a joy to read and review Dominique Hecq's chapbook of prose poems, Endgame with No Ending.

[readsunshine]

I'm almost never angry but all the hurt I've bottled inside me make me look like I'm someone with rage.

[0thello]

Undine (sculpture), 1904 - 1988.

by Isamu Noguchi.

[logophilist1982]

Franz Kafka & love

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language.

[text id: the world is happening in a room that i can't enter, life is happening in a gathering i am not invited to. / being unwanted is a language i am fluent in.]

[deadlypoetacademia]

Is it normal to be happy and sad and hurting and healing and mad and guilty and jealous and calm, all at the same time?

[ancientsstudies]

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

ig credit: vintagesoul_reads.

[booksandwordss]

yeah, well

[soul-from-another-era]

Feel it. The thing that you don't want to feel. Feel it and be free.

[jacibwrites]

Five years since Suitable made its way into the world. Grateful to everyone who has read it.

Suitable for All Methods of Communication by Jacquelyn Bengfort

published by Ghost City Press, can be found here

Read while sitting in bed listening to AM Joy

Author’s note explains the method of communication and I already know I’m gonna like this book

First poem, “Prayer,” and I’m blown away

BRAVO KILO DELTA VICTOR UNAONE

                 You are overhead                  I am adrift

I want to get a line from this poem tattooed on the inside of my wrist

Of course the trouble is KILO looks so random without context but it means something important you know?

“Love Song” has a refrain & I think someone could sing this, though I realize singing the “UNIFORM SIERRA UNAONE” part will defeat the purpose of communicating in signal

WWI was, I think, called “the writers’ war” and “Lament” fits it perfectly

Do you think the soldiers who fought in WWI would be disappointed if they saw us now

I think everyone in history would be disappointed if they saw us now tbh

“Ode” is, if I could be forgiven some Gen Z talk, a big mood. The ocean is so amazing and we all should be grateful we have it

I looked up the NATO alphabet to see if I could write a message in it. All I could come up with was this:

BRAVO ZULU TANGO YANKEE

             Wonderfully done              Thank you

[loveelizabeths]

love elizabeth s.

[readsunshine]

Somedays I want to pull my heart out of my chest just so I can stop feeling this way.

[0thello]

The Birth of Venus (painting), 1863.

by Alexander Cabanel.