My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed, but not as much as her first collection. Some of those poems were included here and I enjoyed revisiting them. One, I swore, had been reformatted (“The First Shave”), by it hadn’t been. It had become so fluid in my head I didn’t remember the text formatting!

The poems that were my favorites in this volume were: Girl; If A Girl Screams In The Middle Of The Night; First Grade, 1988; The First Shave; All Of a The Beautiful Ones Were Catholic; Backpedal; The Autocross; Murder of a Little Beauty; The Sandias, 2008; My Grandmother Asks Why I Don’t Trust Men; and Ode To My Bitch Face.

I also really enjoyed the stories of the babysitter that were interlaced between the poems throughout this book. Powerful.