Build Yourself a Boat

by Camonghne Felix

[laughingrachel]

I liked the experiments with form. The changes that it makes to the flow of the way you read it make a lot of sense. It supports the text, there's a reason for the words to be placed the way they are. I liked how the footnotes came together with everything at the end.

The content of the collection, I'm going to have to sit with some more before I feel comfortable speaking about it. One of the things that makes poetry so difficult to review for me, is the deeply personal nature of it. Not just the poetry itself - it was made to be published, but the feelings and emotions it evokes in the reader. I never feel eloquent enough to get my thoughts across. Which is probably why I like reading other people's words so much.

As it always boils down to for me with poetry, I like it a lot because it made me feel things very deeply.

Highly recommend this collection for anyone. It could speak to a shared experience, it could teach you something new, or a little bit of both.