Review
An e-copy of the book has been provided by the publisher, OR Books, in exchange for an honest review.
Reading poetry is all about finding a certain connection, a spark of relation between you and the writing. It wasn’t present for me; nevertheless, in response to trying to find that spark, I did not stop from reading this book. I traversed it from cover to cover but sadly nothing really connected with me in a level that would instigate for my giving this book a higher rating.
“When a girl pronounces her own name/ there is glory/ when a woman tells her own story/ she lives forever”
As much as this book is brilliant and beautiful, it did not resonate with me personally. Anthologies, especially poetry collections, are harder to echo with than your typical writing. It really does put the subject in subjective.
‘Women of Resistance: Poetry for a New Feminism’ is an engaging and poignant collection of poetry from diverse women. It is well-curated and both stories and writings are fantastic; however, they weren’t for me. I wanted to love and to connect with them and it just didn’t happen. It is more the way the poems were written than anything else.
