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katieannwicked's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.5
thestarrfish's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
This meditation on death as death takes its course was so beautiful. It makes me happy to know that someone who has influenced me as much as Leslie Feinberg was loved like this. “When I step out the door to go to work, I’m in the hallway of a future without you.”
marginaliant's review against another edition
5.0
Favorite poems: “Hand, Handle, Latch”, “The Spin, The Dip”, “Now We Are Rushing”, “The Peacock Fan”, “Last Word.”
genderterrorist's review
5.0
Cried, cried, and cried some more.
Even before you begin this book, the cover is overwhelming. There is symbolism there, Minnie-Bruce later reveals in one of the poems. And then you find out that, in this book of poetry written about Minnie-Bruce's life with Leslie Feinberg, including losing Leslie in 2014, that it was Leslie who took this incredible photo that is the entire cover, and the symbolism makes so much more sense. Leslie was dying and she and Minnie-Bruce knew it. It was not a matter of if, but when.
Minnie-Bruce captures in just one poem: love, loss, grief, Marxism, all against a framework of imagery that flows between a river in Alabama and another snowfall in New York.
Just incredible.
Even before you begin this book, the cover is overwhelming. There is symbolism there, Minnie-Bruce later reveals in one of the poems. And then you find out that, in this book of poetry written about Minnie-Bruce's life with Leslie Feinberg, including losing Leslie in 2014, that it was Leslie who took this incredible photo that is the entire cover, and the symbolism makes so much more sense. Leslie was dying and she and Minnie-Bruce knew it. It was not a matter of if, but when.
Minnie-Bruce captures in just one poem: love, loss, grief, Marxism, all against a framework of imagery that flows between a river in Alabama and another snowfall in New York.
Just incredible.
leasummer's review against another edition
4.0
This is a beautiful collection of poetry steeped in grief. Themes used to express the grief and loss of her partner - rain, snow, rebirth of spring and new leaves, nature as a backdrop to emotions.
gabjd's review against another edition
5.0
just read this on a whim and cried so hard. i hope they are together again
urbsie's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
sad
5.0
I spent most of my time reading this book sobbing over lesbian love, death, my history, history of lesbians and loving, and the future. Leslie Fienberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt, 2 forces for love and freedom in this work. Leslie your love, strength, and power is forever cherished. Minnie, your words remind us to hold our loved ones close. This book of poems means the world a young lesbian who thought they would never see happiness and love, now able to dream of a love this beautiful