Book Review
Title: Bleed Like Me: Poems for the Broken
Author: Azzurra Nox
Genre: Poetry
Rating: *
Review: I have been getting into poetry more lately especially after reading Dear Wallflower by Sara Secora so I decide to request this book from NetGalley. Part 1 is entitled Love & Madness, which is definitely portrayed in the poetry, however, there doesn’t seem to be any links between the poems. What I mean by this is in Dear Wallflower by Sara Secora, there are overarching themes that link all the poems together and in Amanda Lovelace’s poems it seems to follow a single person, the author herself, Bleed like me has neither of these so it feels quite disjointed. Despite this I really loved the poem Geisha, as it encapsulated the essence of what a geisha is and what they do blended with western culture and ideals.
Part 1 takes up the majority of the book except for a small Part 2 entitled Into The Light. Part 1 was very repetitive for me as a lot of the same themes, imagery and wording are used so after around 20 poems I was getting rather bored. There is also no rhyme or reason to the poems making it seem extremely disjointed. For me poetry is a journey and the journey in this collection was so convoluted and confusing I didn’t know where I was most of the time. Part 2, tries to introduce a lighter tone to the poems but doesn’t succeed in that as the themes of suicide, infidelity and the like are rather dark. Amanda Lovelace does this a lot better as her poetry books detail a complete journey you can follow through the darkness, into the light and carrying on into healing. If you are looking for some new poetry to read then I’d recommend Dear Wallflower by Sara Secora or anything by Amanda Lovelace. I expected a lot from Bleed Like Me and for me it didn’t deliver at all.
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I received this review copy from NetGalley.
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