A significant amount felt like matter of fact statements. Some of the shorter poems read to me like sentences, not poetry.
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I think if I was going through a breakup a lot of these poems would actually make me feel worse about my situation. If you’re in the midst of your own devastating breakup you may find these poems resonate with you but my icy heart wasn’t warmed and I certainly wasn’t keen to go looking for love after reading so much about the devastation of its demise. I did connect a little to some of the first group of poems but as soon as the love story and ultimate heartbreak began it was all over for me. Just because I didn’t find a connection with these poems doesn’t mean you won’t. It takes courage and resilience to excavate these and then share them with the world. I want to acknowledge that this author has explored some really painful experiences in writing these poems. Whenever I begin any book I fully intend to adore it and word vomit to everyone who will listen to me about why they should read it and hopefully love it too. Poetry is such a personal experience what you hate I may love and vice versa. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Do we really need to fall as low as we possibly can in order to grow? Can’t we attempt to catch ourselves as we’re falling instead? Once I had my internal rant about that I moved on, hoping to be wowed by the poetry.
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I know it’s already reached maximum cliché level at this point but that’s not my concern. Besides the lack of capitalisation, which is a huge turn off for me regardless of how incredible the writing is, I have a problem with the whole ‘rock bottom’ thing. During my letter to you I found if i hadn’t hit my proverbial rock bottom, i would not have been able to plant my roots and grow upward. I began to think this book wasn’t for me before I even read the first poem. I wanted to see how a poet would describe the experience of chronic pain but I never found out as, unless I missed something along the way, it was only mentioned in my letter to you. I was interested because a few of the themes interested me, especially when I learned the author has experienced chronic pain. This collection of poems is divided into sections: bleed, love, scar, learn, heal. This review and more can be found on my blog.Ĭontent warnings include sexual assault and anorexia. If you’re interested in buying Soft Thorns, just click on the image below to go through my link. If you’re interested in buying Exquisite Corpse, just click on the image below to go through my link.
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It felt so good to tear through this in one sitting. If anything, Soft Thorns was a wakeup call for me to make sure to frequent into the poetry section more often. This is one made me want to dive head-first into this poetry collection. Starts off promising with this eye-opening poem on how you have to open up, as well, to connect with someone’s vulnerable writing. Time to share the ones that stirred my heart from
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I've so missed breezing through a typical poetry collection, in particular, the feelings evoked after, packing short impactful punches to carry you through, similar to Flux by Orion Carloto and The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace. Bridgett Devoue shares her raw, human story and the lessons learned from living a life fully. Soft Thornsis a poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey through a young woman’s life-from reckoning with her looks and sexuality to dealing with the trauma of sexual assault, and finally through the highs and lows of young love found and lost.