The Renunciations: Poems | 
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so-so3 ⭐ This short work of poetry is an interesting but complicated read. I am not a poetry person and find that most of the time to my mind it‘s gibberish. I think I understand the overall story is about a character and then their history with their father, his wife, dying, living, who‘s, who, etc. I read this to fill a reading challenge prompt and while I can‘t say I enjoyed it, I can say it was a different experience
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1. I don't read enough poetry.
2. 🧙♂️🧙♀️🧙🧛🧛♀️🧛♂️🧚♂️🧚♀️🧚🧝♀️🧝♂️🧞♂️🧟♂️👼🎃🔮
3. I like spooky stuff
4. I'm a sucker for a beautiful or cool cover.
pickI picked up this collection because it‘s a finalist for a Lambda Literary award in the Lesbian Poetry category. Wow! It‘s bold and beautiful and deals with difficult topics like surviving incest. (All the trigger warnings.) Donika Kelly often references mythology, which I find welcome for its psychic distance as well as the literary allusions. Meanwhile the poems portray a narrator transforming from the inside. #LGBTQ #poetry
Tonight, my love, we are free
of men, of gods, and I am a river
against you, drawn to current and eddy
ready to make, to be unmade.
-from: Bedtime Story for the Bruised-Hearted
pickI received this book from my Litterati subscription. For my second month I joined Roxane Gay‘s book club, Audacious. I read more poetry when I was younger and in college, but it‘s been awhile since I have really read any poetry deeper than Shell Silverstein. So I am not going to act like I understand more than I do when reviewing this book. And what I can say is; that I like the way that Donika Kelly puts words together. ⬇️
