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isabezza 's review for:
Teeth in the Back of my Neck
by Monika Radojevic
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
I learnt it the hard way, but I learnt to be a woman is to be one’s own woman, and with all due respect, we don’t need your space, we carve our own.
I chose to read this collection because I frequently enjoy the emotional catharsis of feminist poetry, particularly those with creative allusions, such as Radojevic's metaphor of "teeth in the back of my neck." I thoroughly enjoyed the powerful imagery in this collection and would recommend to anyone who wants to feel heard, or is interested in learning. Radojevic has a voice which opens the eyes of readers who may be unaccustomed to the experiences of some women, and tugs at the heart strings of readers who relate to those experiences. I would also recommend reading the acknowledgements or any notes within your copy; contextualising the poetry into her life, her work and effort, was heart warming.
Perhaps you fear the Medusa that sits within each of our faces, and shrink back from the heat that snakes through our blood.
This collection contains many emotionally brutal scenes, information, and experiences. Radojevic frames such poems in a beautiful balance of fury from experience and respect for her readers. I would have loved this collection to be longer.
The speculum was first invented by a doctor whose contributions are misrepresented. The testing of that instrument was first forced between a black woman’s legs. Patient unconsenting, and doctor unrelenting, because lives run cheap when they aren’t white, as the ocean floors may remind you.