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readwithrhys
[4.5 rounded up]
DAMNN y’all, this was good, took me by surprise.
DAMNN y’all, this was good, took me by surprise.
*thank you to netgalley and the publisher for a copy in exchange for an honest review*
I don’t read a lot of poetry collections, so take my review with a grain of salt.
Revenge Body is a collection of personal poems on being fat, biracial, queer, talks about mental health, fraught family relationships, and trauma.
This is definitely a collection that is a hit or miss with readers. I fell in the middle. I resonated with being fat, queer, the mental health talks, and I’m mixed (indigenous and white). However, I didn’t really have a ‘favourite poem’ so to speak. I find that I’m not someone who gets attached to poems, so that is probably why I don’t have a favourite, and why poetry collections aren’t for me (unless they are by Métis authors).
I hope that someone will read this collection and felt completely seen. It just didn’t happen to me. Don’t take my review as a reason not to read it, these poems are definitely topics that need to be talked about more.
I don’t read a lot of poetry collections, so take my review with a grain of salt.
Revenge Body is a collection of personal poems on being fat, biracial, queer, talks about mental health, fraught family relationships, and trauma.
This is definitely a collection that is a hit or miss with readers. I fell in the middle. I resonated with being fat, queer, the mental health talks, and I’m mixed (indigenous and white). However, I didn’t really have a ‘favourite poem’ so to speak. I find that I’m not someone who gets attached to poems, so that is probably why I don’t have a favourite, and why poetry collections aren’t for me (unless they are by Métis authors).
I hope that someone will read this collection and felt completely seen. It just didn’t happen to me. Don’t take my review as a reason not to read it, these poems are definitely topics that need to be talked about more.