This took me longer than I was expecting, and longer than most poetry collection is due. O’Connor writes with such raw emotion, and really dives deep into what each poem is about, and each feeling. There were moments where I genuinely had to stop reading because my heart hurt at reading the words, and I felt the pain that she did. That’s a very powerful thing to be able to do with poetry, and with words and stories in general, and I haven’t read too many collections that are able to genuinely make my heart pound the way this one did. and it’s very easy for the “healing” aspect of it to be about someone else fixing you, and although it did get a little bit cheesy towards the end, I think it ended on a very high note. It really exceeded my expectations for this collection.