The Princess Saves Herself in this One
Ratings87
Average rating3.6
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Ratings87
Average rating3.6
From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration. the princess saves herself in this one is the first book in the "women are some kind of magic" series.
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3 primary booksWomen Are Some Kind of Magic is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Amanda Lovelace and ladybookmad.
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“When I had
no friends
I reached inside
my beloved
books
& sculpted some
out of
12 pt
Times new roman.
– & it was almost good enough.”
“1. fill in the blank:
a) poetry is ___.
- anything you want it to be”
2 1/2 stars. There is promise here, yes. But there is also pretentiousness. And much of it.
(One should not name-check Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf in their first boom of poetry. Be your own poet for some time first before claiming sisters in the word.)
Also, Amanda's style of naming or footnoting—I could not tell which—each poem with an italicized aside at the end was jolting for me as a reader, and made each of these feel rather like a zinger, like Amanda herself popping up to chortle “See what I did there?” A poem would resonate with me, then be abruptly bookended by this screeching halt to the flow. These extra endings made me feel as if she as the writer didn't trust me as the reader to get it, and had to give me a hint as to each poem's meaning. That violates the contract of the nebulousness of poetry; what the writer meant when she rang the bell may mean something different to every ear that hears its tone, and therein lies poetry's resounding, and compelling, beauty. There must be trust for the readers.
Okay, I've had enough of this.
i've
had
enough
of
this.
enough
is
enough
is
enough
I'm not going to live long enough to read everything on my TBR list. Ergo, I neither have to soldier through this one and work myself into a frothing rage over what qualifies as (Goodreads) award-winning poetry these days. In fact, I'm gonna do myself a favour and avoid anything that Goodreads members pick as “award winning”.
did
not
finish
- i got other books waiting
Reading copy courtesy of NetGalley.
