![]() ”sugar, spice, & fire” (155-56) The Princess Saves Herself in this One HUD I can’t critique poetry based on poetic aesthetics, but I can tell you that this was both the most upsetting and uplifting collection of poems I’ve ever read. ![]() Most of my books end up moving from Boston to a temporary/permanent home in Minnesota when I finish them, but this one is going to stay with me. I have eight poems marked in it, and I had to put it down once because it made me cry and a few more times because it was a little too real. I love The Princess Saves Herself in this One. ![]() It probably stems from taking IB English classes in high school where we tore poems apart until they were bits and pieces strewn about a room. I ascribe to Russell Baker’s theory of poetry: “I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.” Now, I don’t actually know what Russell Baker considered new poetry and whether or not Amanda Lovelace’s collection would count as coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world, but I hate poetry. Back cover text: The story of a princess turned damsel turned queenĪ collection of poems that hurt about a woman moving from princess to damsel to queen to you getting down to business… ![]()
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