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An Old Song For Wrong Women (BlankVerseDead Folio Edition) (2000)

by Pablo D'Stair(Favorite Author)

2.59 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

BlankVerseDead

review 1: Received this through Goodreads First Reads Giveaways.First impression-Some of the individual lines in some of the poems really resonated with me. Will point out which ones later. However, the pointless repetition of seemingly random words really interrupted the flow and didn't add anything to the meaning of the poem, as it simply created incomprehensible half-sentences. And then there's the issue of the sexism. So, honestly, I'm really not sure what D'Stair thinks about women. His description of them in poem I is definitely very insulting, but perhaps that just applies to the titular "wrong women?" At the end, he returns to the descriptions of ladies, which are still vaguely insulting, but not as obviously. I would say that perhaps D'Stair was not aiming for sexism, but s... moreimply some other point about certain kinds of women or our perceptions of women or something like that. However, as much as I'd like to give benefit of the doubt, I did not get any of those other ideas. I simply got the sense that Pablo D'Stair has an issue with women, and beyond my personal feminist tendencies, I think that a lot of readers will have issues with the way he addresses that.
review 2: **ARC/GIVEAWAY**Honest review: I felt frustrated by this poem. I couldn't help but feel that there was a bitter thread of misogyny running through the words. Women do have complicated emotions, but no more complicated than men - it's irritating to read the same old crap about how "us women" sit on their problems forever instead of solving them. A bad experience is a bad experience. It's not okay to judge 50% of the world based on those experiences. Thanks for the giveaway, but the subject material was a big turnoff. less

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