Brute: Poems | 
pickThis was a powerful collection of poems about the rage and heartbreak of a relationship in which she gave her love and attention to someone who didn‘t deserve it. The poems are often bleak yet fierce and display the conflicting emotions involved in loving someone who may not be the best for us. Strong, raw emotions here in this deeply engaging poetry collection. 5⭐️
Drunkly reading poetry inside-out & upside-down in this wonderful houseboat cabin in the woods.
pickA collection of fierce & haunting poems that together become a song of rage, of assessing the damage done during a romantic relationship, and of the emotional release after processing its break up. Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, an open competition for poets who have not yet published a book. Thanks @ReadingEnvy for bringing this outstanding book to my attention. #blameitonLitsy
(Author photo: Kaitlyn Stoddard)
In March I drop an egg hoping a bird will fly out disbelieving science. All the manuals tell me this is a logical contract. You commit yourself to a shell & you end up flying.
See how I was a bell
clanging all night
through the broken fields?
How I spoke only in code?
I know what to do
with the dark.
Breakfast poetry.
pickI really liked the writing style of these poems, but I am HERE for the anger.
My top reads for April are pictured.
Full tally (link at end):
Total Books Read: 35
Five-starred: 8!
Print: 15
eBook: 17
Audiobook: 3
Review copies or other galleys: 14
Library or interlibrary loan: 15
Purchased: 6
Asia 2019: 5
Womens' Prize for Fiction: 1
Poetry: 7
Leftover Tournament of Books longlist reading: 2
http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2019/05/books-read-april-2019-83-117.html
pickThis powerful debut collection deserves multiple readings and I've read most of them out loud as well. The end of an unhealthy relationship comes with damage and these poems reflect all of it. Some reposition the narrative to defend the person who finally got out, some are confrontational, some speak to the shared experience many women have. ⤵️
