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Soft Thorns

Soft Thorns 1

by Bridgett Devoue
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Publication Date: 02/10/2018
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The poetry living within these pages tells stories of love, heartbreak, freedom, oppression, sexual assault, sexism, hope, and humanity. Our darkest times are where we grow the most, so in this book, i share mine, and together we learn how to heal.

Soft Thorns is a poetry collection that takes the reader on a journey through a young woman's life-from reckoning with her looks and sexuality to dealing with the trauma of sexual assault, and finally through the highs and lows of young love found and lost. Bridgett Devoue shares her raw, human story and the lessons learned from living a life fully.
ISBN:
9781449496883
9781449496883
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-10-2018
Publisher:
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
203x127x15mm
Weight:
0.24kg

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Content warnings include sexual assault and anorexia.

This collection of poems is divided into sections: bleed, love, scar, learn, heal. I was interested because a few of the themes interested me, especially when I learned the author has experienced chronic pain. I wanted to see how a poet would describe the experience of chronic pain but I never found out as, unless I missed something along the way, it was only mentioned in ‘my letter to you’.

Besides the lack of capitalisation, which is a huge turn off for me regardless of how incredible the writing is, I found myself really disappointed. Poetry is such a personal experience; what you hate I may love and vice versa. Whenever I begin any book I intend to adore it and word vomit to everyone who will listen to me about why they should read it and hopefully love it too. I hate it when that doesn’t happen.

I want to acknowledge that this author has explored some really painful experiences in writing these poems. It takes courage and resilience to excavate these and then share them with the world. Just because I didn’t find a connection with these poems doesn’t mean you won’t.

I did connect a little to some of the first group of poems but as soon as the love story and ultimate heartbreak began it was all over for me. Some of the shorter poems read to me like sentences, not poetry. A significant amount felt like matter of fact statements. I don’t want to be able to read one poem after another without having to pause and take in the beauty of the specific combination of words I’ve just experienced. I want something revolutionary. I want to experience at least one ‘wow, I’ve never thought of it that way!’ moment.

Granted I probably want too much from poetry but ultimately it boils down to wanting poetry to make me feel. I want to feel the poet’s joy, heartache, rage, passion, hope. I want to take the experience (if not the specific words) of the poetry with me when I close the book. Unfortunately I didn’t find that here.

Thank you to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the opportunity to read this book.

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