Liza Achilles

Jul 1, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Liza Achilles |Jennette McCurdy

A brazen account of love and sex made messy, and a bit messily. Achilles explores unrequited love in the emotion’s most sympathetic poetic form—the sonnet. How might the speakers of Shakespeare’s poems have dealt with the advent of antidepressants amidst their romantic tribulations? What planes of desire and yearning might Twitter or dating apps supplant for John Keats? For the author, a poetic form “forgot by all not taking English Lit” becomes a 21st century catharsis, diary, and confession.