MischaS_'s Reviews > The Princess Saves Herself in This One

I love poetry! However, I think that my love for poetry froze at the end of the nineteenth century. I'm not a fan of the poetry from the twentieth century and if this is how poetry looks in the twenty-first century than no, thank you very much.

I'm not going to say this is not poetry though my personal opinion might be different. (If you gave me one page from this and asked me if it was poetry, I would say a hard NO. But, as the author says:

a) poetry is ____________.
- anything you want it to be. )

So, here you have it.

However, in all honesty, I believe that when the calligrams appeared at first many probably thought that this was not poetry as well. I still do not like Calligram poetry, but I can respect it because that's crazy how much the poet has to plan to make it happen! 😲



And now everyone knows this one. ⬆ Maybe in hundred years, Amanda Lovelace will be perceived as the biggest poet of the twenty-first century, who knows!


I also sort of liked what the author was trying to say. I really liked the third part, the Queen.

when you choose
to sit upon a
throne
made up of
lies
&
the bodies
of the people who
mistakenly thought
they could
t
r
u
s
t
you,

the only
thing left
to do
is

f
a
l
l.

However, that was about it.

“no” is short for “fuck off.” No, is not short for anything! NO means NO and nothing else.

The story (I assume that it's the author's life story and for that, I'm sorry because it sounds terrible) however several times I had to disagree with her statements. For me, it was too much pushing her agenda, it tarnished the "poetry" and did not feel genuine.


To conclude, if you like it/love it, I'm happy for you. However, I will stay with my poetry from the nineteenth century or older. Because for me personally this is not something I perceive as poetry.

This would be 1,5/5⭐.