Foreword by Kiese Layton
145 pages
Published 2017 (expanded from original edition published 2013)
Read from January 4 to January 5
Rating: 4 out of 5
When it comes to poetry, I’m a dilettante. I only know my old circle of poets, plus maybe a handful of household names. My library has a modest collection of poetry books; one of my reading goals this year is to expand my poetry horizons.
bone is a mesmerizing introduction to Daley-Ward. Poems of love, of grief, of queerness, of god and violations too vast to outline, of negotiations within oneself to remain alive — all of them weave around one another, short stings of free verse that feel like the wisdom of aphorisms followed by epics hundreds of lines long. “Love is not a safe word,” she explains in “things it can take twenty years and a bad liver to work out,” then adds, “But it’s the safe things that kill you / in the end.”
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