Karolina Schnoor

I do not read a lot of poetry but when I saw There are Girls Like Lions on Netgalley, I loved the cover and the title and I
decided to step outside my wheelhouse and try it. The collection covers many different styles and eras from the ancient Greek poet, Sappho to present day. For the most part, I enjoyed this collection although perhaps because I do not normally read poetry, I admit that some of the poems seemed incomprehensible to me and, to be honest, I liked the illustrations and the show more forward best of all. However, as a woman who grew up in the era of second-wave feminism and has watched with sorrow, the loss of so much that was fought so hard for and, as I follow the struggles both old and new, of third-wave, I can only applaud any collection whose intent is to empower women.

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The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

While a handful of the poems in this collection struck me in particular, most of them are sadly forgettable. This is not the only collection of its kind; it reminds me of 'Furies: An Anthology of Women Warriors,' edited by Eve Lacey, but that is not a criticism of the book. In fact, I wish there were even more collections like them since they all dig into femininity and womanhood in ways with show more which I am able to connect. I think that any time you have a collection of poems, especially by different poets, some will stick with you more than others. The poems that I found particularly good were by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kimiko Hahn, Tracy K. Smith, Mary Oliver, Sandra Cisneros (hers was my favorite), Emily Dickinson, and Vera Pavlova.

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