i finally finished this: what do i feel?

armitage is a brilliant poet, with actually good takes on what constitutes poetry. i think it sheds light on how much poetry has evolved from chaucer to rupi kaur (lowkey a downgrade, but a good timeline regardless).

there were a couple of chapters that i didn’t really find myself interested in, but generally speaking, the contents were great.

there were a lot of my own opinions that were positively reflected by armitage, and i quite appreciate that!

“Botany knows how to die beautifully, without really dying. Botany still knows more about death.”

this is my Gospodinov work, and i think that there’s just absolute quality behind his words, descriptions, and narrative ability.

with that said, i find it interesting… the narrator’s processing and cycle of grief. i can definitely relate to the narrator, because my father has also recently… you know. so, i understand the unprocessed emotions behind his actions.

but! maybe it’s also because of the way i’ve been brought up, grief doesn’t linger so deeply within me. i sometimes cannot understand why one must be so stuck up within a particular moment in time.

i know what my grief feels like.

overall, i can feel the author’s exploration of grief and am okay with it, but i personally felt like the writing was often too lull for me.

a very easy breezy read!

what i loved about this book was how it puts you into the perspective of receiving a letter, writing a letter, and waiting for a letter.

the process is thrilling, exciting even!

otherwise, i’d say that it’s just a fairly straight forward fiction piece. simple plot to follow, decent pacing, lowkey predictable.