Reviews for Reversible destiny

The average rating for Reversible destiny based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-02-23 00:00:00 Lauren Beatty Wow. I'll post an actual review of this in a bit. I challenged myself to read poetry collections for January. I picked up Wounded in the House of a Friend without reading the inside cover or knowing anything about Sonia Sanchez. I liked the name of the book. I thought I would reflect internally, spark some self-absorbed thoughts of my own inner pain that I could journal about. It was a slim volume and I thought I would plow through it quickly. This is not something that can be plowed through quickly. These poems have weight. These poems took me out of my own head. These were beautiful and they hurt and I spent every day I read thinking about them in uncomfortable places. If I ever meet Sonia Sanchez, I'll probably make a dumb-ass of myself by only being able to say "wow."

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-15 00:00:00 Alice Pangia This book was the first I read by Sanchez; soon it will the first of many. Her honesty and fearlessness kept me spellbound. Frequently, the musicality of her poems made me feel as if I were watching her perform a live concert beneath a darkened fantastical sky with fires crackling and swirling around us. Her writing strips humanity to the core leaving nothing but truths and realities, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly, behind always inviting the reader to be a conscientious witness to history's past and history's present unfolding.