Aphrodite Made Me Do It: Volume 1 (Myth and Magick)

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It gave me the chills, it made me cry and it gave me so many emotions that not many poem books were able to give me. aphrodite then (as the feminist, lgbt icon she is) explains the power of love and forgiveness to our narrator. The feeling and expression of strong emotions acts as the healthy catharsis that can allow poet/goddess/woman to open her heart to the peace, self-love and joy that she deserves. Aphrodite Made Me Do It is a collection of prose-poetry, framed as a conversation between the author and Aphrodite, goddess of love, sex and beauty.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Each of them feels personal, almost as if reading another's diary, and they often deal with difficult content in beautiful ways which make you leave feeling empowered and strong. I usually really enjoy longer poems, but here, the supposed longer poems aren't giving me what they are suppose to : they usually consist of a succession of short sentences that seem more like a bullet-pointed draft than an actual poem. Using the framework of a conversation, with sections alternating between the perspective of the poet and the goddess herself, Mateer explore issues like: heartbreak, sexuality, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore, speaking your truths, and rewriting your origin story.

In this way some of her work was perhaps lessened by her execution when it could have had a much greater impact if delivered in another way. Sometimes the art is the poetry itself, with each page/canvas being a line that flows into the next. The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory.

It feels awful saying that, because each experience is a different one and it's unfair to compare them, but if you put two modern poems by different poets side by side and asked me to correctly match them to their poets, there's a strong chance I'll be unsuccessful. I like that it personifies how we can all be something beautiful on our own, yet still connect to create something much larger and more beautiful as a whole. There was something so unique about this collection and I love that the author included her illustrations and art work. I want to give young, new poets a chance and I am always looking for new talent, but every time I try them out, I end up disappointed. Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer pulls out some tarot cards and asks for help in her goddess inspired poetry collection, Aphrodite Made Me Do It .