Review: She Used to Be on a Milk Carton

She Used to Be on a Milk Carton by Kailey Tedesco
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

She Used to Be on a Milk Carton is a collection of poetry that focuses a lot on darker, gothic imagery and death, but it isn't to the point of depressing. It has a lot of juxtaposition with its images, but it all seems to come together at the end of each poem/section.

What I found interesting in this collection is that the poems are at a much higher level of maturity than the cover or the illustrations that accompany the pieces. While I found the poetry intellectual and thoughtful, the drawings looked like they belonged to a collection that's more along the lines of the recent rise in Instagram poets. It was jarring, but not to the point where you still couldn't absorb the words.

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