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Lions Like Us
- GenresPoetry
110 pages, Paperback
Published June 7, 2024
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September 24, 2024
In this publication, Hollie presents a profound and intricate series of beautiful readings that I found deeply related in many ways to the plethora of personal relationships I've experienced throughout my life. I found her keen insightful passages intoxicating as she expressed a serious and sometimes comical view regarding her various subject matter. As an educator and someone who has had little exposure to poetry, I must say I was captivated and thrilled with her work. I encourage anyone who respects the purity and depth of poetry to take a minute and read this publication. In doing so, I believe you will find the same deep attachment to the various poems Hollie so eloquently introduces.
October 21, 2024
One of the best poetry books I have read. It was gorgeous and a beautiful book.
October 1, 2024
A generous voice that reaches out to the other, Hardy invites us into her perspective. She reshapes our common images with refreshed language. From “A Field of Bees”(p.38):
The thread weaving this collection, love that informs life, brings us closer to its nature: its oceanic pull, its ephemeral presence, its haunting aftermath. "The Body," a mourning for a fallen crow as Icarus, whom she addresses directly: "Your body stranded / in sky," is particularly vivid for me who favors birds in my landscape (p.88).
sun streams through the kitchen window
like Rapunzel’s hair
cascading from the tower
rewriting the prisoner in new landscape
The thread weaving this collection, love that informs life, brings us closer to its nature: its oceanic pull, its ephemeral presence, its haunting aftermath. "The Body," a mourning for a fallen crow as Icarus, whom she addresses directly: "Your body stranded / in sky," is particularly vivid for me who favors birds in my landscape (p.88).
August 5, 2025
ugh, anything hollie writes i’m going to read. so let’s just start off with…oh my god?? this book was so good, i think her first one “how to take a bullet” was definitely my favorite but that doesn’t mean this book was any less good. like omg five more minutes please? repetition & spectacle? temptation? long distance? small moments (a visit)? super sad anniversary poem?? (re)imagine(nation)?? where shall we begin?? spiders bandaging prey?? a murder of crows feet??? how to bask in anything???? here’s to you????? bangers. this was a book of love poems but it was so much more than that. 5⭐️
January 4, 2025
It’s rare that I would read an entire book of poetry in one sitting but that’s exactly what I did with this book. Such did Hollie Hardy’s words keep me engaged from start to finish.
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