Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Nearly every poem in this collection had at least one highlight-worthy line that spoke to me. Even if I didn’t fully “understand” each poem on first read, this is a mostly accessible chapbook, and the craft is so well-executed that I didn’t care when a message was going over my head. The words sound nice together, and I could appreciate them on that base level alone. There’s a confident competence to the writing that assures me if I sat down with this book and really analyzed it, I could interpret the intended meanings and also make some of my own.

I especially enjoyed the poems about failed relationships and current socio-political issues. Some of my favorite poems were “Epitome,” “Baggage,” “What makes you leave,” “No Left; Child Behind,” and “In my dreams I am a runner.”

This is a nice, modern collection of poems. It would be a great piece of work to revisit and dig deeper into on each read.

Arc review:
This was not my favorite poetry I've read.
I enjoyed some of the poems like : what is worth?, coexist & romantic notions.
But I had the feeling I did not understand every poem, which is totally on me and might be because English is not my 1st language.
But it is the reason I'm giving it a 3/5.
Not because it is a bad book or badly written, but because I just don't understand a big part of the poems.

I do think it's worth the try to read is.
It's not a long book, and there are really good poems in there!
Please give it a try you are at doubt!

I want to thank everyone involved with me getting the arc.

i greatly enjoyed this anthology - some hit me more than others, but they were evocative and beautiful, even when the subject matter turned to darker matters, like grief. well worth the reading.