A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, & you. the princess, the damsel, & the queen piece together the life of the author in three stages, while you serves as a note to the reader & all of humankind. Explores life & all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, & inspirations. the princess saves herself in this one review

I’m going to take another moment here to say I’m not a poet or a proper poetry critic, so please take this with a grain of salt. However, I’m not a big fan of the italic note at the end of every poem. This is a firm style choice by Lovelace, but sometimes I don’t find them necessary. I caught myself skipping over them while reading. Most of the poems stand fine on their own without the italic note, so they bothered me more than intrigued me. a b c Miller, E. Ce (6 March 2018). " The Witch Doesn't Burn In This One Poet Amanda Lovelace Wants Sexual Assault Survivors To Know They Have Permission To Be Openly Angry". Bustle . Retrieved 10 December 2018. Facetiousness aside, Lovelace’s poetry book asks an essential question. How much has the fairy tale princess and the fairy tale itself shaped the female psyche? Lovelace’s speaker is obsessed with books and has transformed her life into a story. Anyone with even a mildly literary imagination can fall victim to this. I get you clothes sometimes, so it would be perfectly reasonable if I got some from you too. Again, any guy who braves any type of dreadful clothing store deserves an award too.

And what does a modern princess do once she’s escaped the tower and found her prince charming? Why, she moves to New York, of course. The last section of the book is a weird medley. A person jumps in front of the speaker’s subway train and the speaker memorializes her in a poem (no mention of Anna Karenina, sadly). A man on the street asks the speaker to help him find lost photos. Caught in the millennial rat race, the speaker writes about “working minimum wage jobs/ with college degrees.” But the poems don’t go deeper than this and fail to comment on the conditions of injustice, or social and racial inequity that got us here to begin with. Have you read the princess saves herself in this one? How did you feel about it? Let me know in the comments! OVERALL RATING

a b c d e f Masaki, Nicole (24 July 2017). "Princess Saves Herself In This One' By Amanda Lovelace". Odyssey . Retrieved 10 December 2018.The section I liked the most are II the damsel and III the queen. I connected most to those two sections. The section I slightly disliked the last one, IV you. I feel a bit disconnected from it. It was quite different from the previous ones and even a bit political. I hate when art suggests politics so strongly. It loses its beauty. The Princess Saves Herself in This One has four sections, each showing the princess's progression in agreement with an overlying theme. [2] The Princess [ edit ] There wasn’t really a plot, and although there are some characters, there is a ton of feeling and not necessarily a lot of explaining. So it was a book of poetry, not a story, even though it was written like one. Confused? Me too. Even though I've written quite a bit of poetry myself I don't read much. I'm not sure why but it's never been a big interest for me when it comes to reading. I've seen this book around for a little while and absolutely loved the title as well as the simplistic design of the cover. It stands out and drew me in instantly. Unlike Kaur’s poetry, which I think could use an editor, some of Lovelace’s poems read as more mature, complete, and well-rounded. (This doesn’t mean that Lovelace couldn’t also benefit from a stronger editorial eye.) The simple fairy tale trope is doing the majority of the heavy lifting. When Lovelace pulls it off, the poems work because the fairy tale theme and subject matter create multiple levels of meaning. The poems are at their best when the literal theme subverts the fairy tale theme.