laura_sackton's reviews
114 reviews

Somewhere Roxane Gay wrote "I was stunned to stillness" about a book. I can't remember where. Maybe it was a blurb? Anyway I think about that a lot because it is a very specific feeling I get with some books. Being stunned into stillness. This book did that. Incredible.

SO GOOD!

No one is more surprised than me by the strength of my dislike for this book.

Did not understand. Was completely lost and therefore totally bored.

Stunning, stunning, stunning. A flood and an emptying out. So much ringing ringing blood imagery. This is such a bodily book, such a tumultuous book, such a tangled and beautiful book. So much in this book. Such singing poems. Loved.

I just really cannot express how much I do not care about a book that is over 70% white men. Get a grip. If your book about artists is not AT LEAST 50% BIPOC and women artists, what the fuck are you doing? I mean for real? What planet are you living on? Get a grip.

Really can't explain what reading Mary Oliver's debut did to me. Most of the poems are so dry and stuffy and forgettable. The book will live in my heart forever. A gift.

Very bleak. Incredible structure. I think I loved it.

This was fascinating. Really enjoyed.

Nothing really happens in this book, and sometimes that doesn't work for me but wow I loved it. It's a really beautiful book about the texture of life, I think, the dailiness of it, even in the middle of turmoil. Loved.