Violet Bent Over The Grass by Lana Del Ray: The Missing 'Spark' from her songs 3๐ŸŒŸ

Well someone has recently told me that there is a Lana Del Ray poetry book so you know i would have to buy it. But after reading all of it, the entire thing felt like a soulless cash grab, but it IS well written. This is vastly better than all the other 'poetry books' or whatever that i've read that are astoundingly seven words long ๐Ÿคฆ‍♂️ (wow great poetry, its seven damn words long) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ you know which books i'm talking about. This one has great rhythm and what i think will actually be future lana dela ray songs??? The ideas presented are well thought out and she doesn't go for a Tumblr-esque emotional approach for sad girlies, it has actual DEPTH and meaning to all the poetry.


One thing that i would criticize though is that the lines all throughout the poems don'tttttt have any cohesiveness to all the others, it has barely any general direction to follow and i think that even genius writing should have clarity on what it is supposed to portray. All of these may have been authentic to Lana Del Ray but it falls short of any impactful messages to take home. Its well written....that it. And another thing is that the poem are a little bit rushed because there is a lack of a mundane conclusion to every poem, it all seems that every poem abruptly ends and moves on to the next one without any further thoughts.


And this is some sort of pet peeve when it comes to poetry books but the moment it becomes a photography collection ummmmm.... That's when i think that you are just filling the pages with random photos, almost every poem is only put only left side of the book and the entire right hand side is just a photo, there are even some instances where 2 entire pages when flipped just shows a photo and its 'lazy' for me to think since if you're just going to make a photo collection, then make it a photo collection, not a poetry book.


It has also come to my attention that 14 out of the 30 poems in here are already released past the publishing of this book in audiobook form on vinyl WHICH IS FREE ON YOUTUBE so...if almost half of the entire book is released already hmmmmmmmmmmmm๐Ÿคจ๐Ÿง๐Ÿง๐Ÿง๐Ÿง this a cash grab, but it has enough well written poems for me to actually appreciate its existence, so the least i can give this is three stars.




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