Lila Danisa
I humbly confess that I don't understand almost all of the poems in this book. At first I thought I would understand if I reread from the beginning to the end. However, by the 5th time of my rereading, I gave up and acknowledged my not so good interpretation of the poems written in this book. I could count in one hand how many poems I barely understand, the rest were just jumbled of words to me. So, the 3 stars rating is not because the poems are bad, but purely because of me not understanding 90% of the book.
But, I have many favorites lines. Those lines were just somehow resonate with me. Some of them were also ironically funny. One of them being, "After all, consumption was a way of measuring". Or "People this obsessed with comparison rarely arrive at preference. They grow attached to the translatability of choice". Another one being, "Admittedly, I had not slept well and felt passive like a doorframe of my self ".
As I write this review, I consider to reread this poetry book as many as I need to finally understand at least 50% of the book. Sound ambitious eh.
Thank you to Xuela Zhang, NYU Press, Fonograf Editions, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.
I humbly confess that I don't understand almost all of the poems in this book. At first I thought I would understand if I reread from the beginning to the end. However, by the 5th time of my rereading, I gave up and acknowledged my not so good interpretation of the poems written in this book. I could count in one hand how many poems I barely understand, the rest were just jumbled of words to me. So, the 3 stars rating is not because the poems are bad, but purely because of me not understanding 90% of the book.
But, I have many favorites lines. Those lines were just somehow resonate with me. Some of them were also ironically funny. One of them being, "After all, consumption was a way of measuring". Or "People this obsessed with comparison rarely arrive at preference. They grow attached to the translatability of choice". Another one being, "Admittedly, I had not slept well and felt passive like a doorframe of my self ".
As I write this review, I consider to reread this poetry book as many as I need to finally understand at least 50% of the book. Sound ambitious eh.
Thank you to Xuela Zhang, NYU Press, Fonograf Editions, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.