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I was looking for reading material related to feminism when I found Amanda Lovelace’s anthologies on my e-reader shop. I should have executed my first plan reading Roxane Gay’s but let me share glimpse of my thoughts about her two books that I have just done reading; The Princess Saves Herself in This One and The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One. If you decide to dive deeper into feminism-world and fancy to know how feminist shows her expression wrapped in poetry, Amanda’s writing would probably give you such depiction, even though I personally go to her second rather than her first book in regards to the matter. 



On the Princess Saves Herself in This One, she breaths in the figure of a princess to help her communicate the messages. This autobiography-poems collection tends to extend the ideas related to child abuse, family's problems, personal disorders, trauma, violence, and death, making the reader seem to enter a dark room of the writer as well as embrace it through some personal touch.  

The first chapter, I may say, emphasis the points given from a perspective of the princess herself who is wronged and forsaken, with all the broken promises followed that someone might have offered. Yet through the downfall, she is started realizing the process to finally be able standing up straight, supporting herself, introducing her to self-love which is appear to be the basis important thing of feminism. Her grows are depicted from chapter to chapter, from being princess to damsel and finally becoming a queen. 

"I will take the blood-tipped thorns they are stuck in you & from them I will teach you how to weave together the crown you deserve."

Amanda seems to have us reminded, after so many times said by the warriors as well, that we are more than worthy to present our love and grant our heart not to those who don’t appreciate the existence of women enough.  

“…these girls deserve to have better stories than the ones where they are murdered because they love too much of their hearts."

This part is one that I favor;

"You are not obligated to have children just because your body has that capability. You are so much more than the possibility of children. You give birth to oceans every single day."




The term of ‘witch’ is not something to be proud of once someone has been bestowed it upon, but the depiction somehow feels real and close to reality and us, women, when it’s presented in her second book entitled The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One. The figure of a witch adopted with her complexion and power gives a fine image how women can magic fire out of air. 

Stories from generation to generation and ancient myths show how being a witch is a cruel act and the death penalty by burning her to ashes is what they deserved. Yet it is picturesque when Amanda is throwing off phrases that indicate the accused and condemned witch can rise up and fight back with the fire, which should have burned herself. They can turn that fire as a weapon of resistance against the old stigma; a well-known issue connected still to the present called patriarchy. 

"They will try to steal your light & use it as a weapon against you. But there's a piece of good news: they don't have the patience to control it like you do."

Amanda gives us quite a lot of engaging parables that make me fancy her second work. At times, it may seem full of wrath, anger or emotion overflowed, yet it is important for the reader having the ability to recognize that it is not the intention to hate men or to generalize the treatment men provide towards women. To keep in mind, she encourages us women to freely and bravely pour ourselves down in writings as one way to speak up. At the end, the fire that kills us is the same fire that nurtures us. To have burnt is not something to be frightened of, even when we turn to ashes, there always be hands that continue writing the brave history and representation of us, women. 

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