Release date: September 4th, 2018
Pages: 240
Genre: Poetry
From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.
Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, and Alicia Keys). In his second collection of poetry, The Dark Between Stars, he turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences—the inescapable connections between our highest highs and lowest lows. He captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. While grappling with the question of how to live with purpose and find meaning in the journey, these poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations. As Atticus writes poignantly about dancing, Paris, jazz clubs, sunsets, sharing a bottle of wine on the river, rainy days, creating, and destroying, he illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.
Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, and Alicia Keys). In his second collection of poetry, The Dark Between Stars, he turns his attention to the dualities of our lived experiences—the inescapable connections between our highest highs and lowest lows. He captures the infectious energy of starting a relationship, the tumultuous realities of commitment, and the agonizing nostalgia of being alone again. While grappling with the question of how to live with purpose and find meaning in the journey, these poems offer both honest explorations of loneliness and our search for connection, as well as light-hearted, humorous observations. As Atticus writes poignantly about dancing, Paris, jazz clubs, sunsets, sharing a bottle of wine on the river, rainy days, creating, and destroying, he illustrates that we need moments of both beauty and pain—the darkness and the stars—to fully appreciate all that life and love have to offer.
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What in the bad poetry is this mess? Seriously. What the hell is this and who thought this was a good idea to publish it?
I liked the total of 4 poems in this book, everything else felt just like some words put together in a complete nonsense as if the author was playing "writing what first comes to my mind".
This is bad. This is really, really bad. And this is coming from someone who's read Love Her Wild and I absolutely loved that one! But this one was terrible. And just to give a few examples:
❝I've always loved lavender,
it's purple in all the right places.❞
Pardon, what?
Is this for real? Am I being pranked?
❝Wine tastes sweeter when drunk on love in Paris.❞
❝An open window in Paris
is all the world I need.❞
I'm all about short poetry and the Instagram trend that is going on now. I love Rupi Kaur's style and the idea of putting so much meaning in so little words.
But this book felt like I'm reading Instagram captions under the pictures and even those sound more meaningful and less repetitive. It was like reading the same thing over and over again with different words.
Yeah. This is a big no, thank you from me.
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