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Superstition The clouds move like scissors subtracting the sky.In the attic I shear my wedding dress to my knees. I repeat your name until I forget mine,push my hands through the mirror at midnight.And Brittney Brittany—you are no magician's girl so whydo you let him saw through all your articulate ribs. Notes: Girl-King (i): in medieval England, during the Twelfth Night festival (which ended on All Hallows Eve), a Lord of Misrule was elected during a feast. Whoever found a
Based on Cavallaro's short bio here on GR, I see that she considers herself a "Sherlockian" and has actually written a YA series in that theme. In Girl-King, she sets the majority of poems in this same dark and shadowed space, gothic and macabre, "cabinet of curiosity" style. While I too like this period, the poetry didn't always work for me - your mileage may vary. Highlight section for me was The Resurrectionists and the various cadavers and their imagined lives. At least I think that was what...
An exquisitely wrought group of poems, each very precisely tuned. I stumbled a little in several sections with references/metaphor - The Ressurectionists section is the most accessible - but was definitely rewarded by the “work” of reading. (I’d advise revisiting Berryman’s Dream Songs when reading the Mirror Songs section)
Beautiful language. Gorgeous cover. I’m not sure if the poems fit together all that well.My favorite was Bildungsroman.
Vague, dim, and dismal, I didn't particularly enjoy reading this collection of poetry for my Writing Poetry class at North Central College. I struggled to find meaning within the poems and couldn't quite grasp on to anything besides dark images and trauma. I would like to think that I'm just missing a well-buried theme, but I could not enjoy these poems no matter how deep I *tried* to dig into them.
My first dive into poetry comes with a surprising unpopular opinion. Though the author did have some beautifully written lines, the poetry did not seem to stay consistent. The surrounding lines came across as scattered thoughts and the overall theme became lost.
I am trying to get more info poetry. I love this author, and I loved the premise of this collection. The writing was exquisite. But also I think I only understood a fraction of what was going on here. This is definitely one I will want to revisit.
Utterly magical <3
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4.5 Empowering Poetic StarsI have always had a strange relationship with poetry, where it finds me after multiple readings and each time I glean a deeper message from the carefully arranged words. With Brittany Cavallaro's Girl-King, I did require a second and in some cases third reading, but the power and developing narrative across the entire collection kept me enraptured. An early step in my quest to read more poetry, and personally it was a beautifully symbolic step in the right direction.
