“I can’t tell if my therapist is cool or just has short bangs”ebook43 s Elyse Walters4,010 11.3k

Library -overdrive -audiobook...read by the author. Forty minutes long.

This was my first experience with Catherine Cohen. I found her very likable.

Hilarious was the first word I thought of when sitting down to write ‘something’ to share about what I just listened to, though.....
....not hilarious in a haha way...
rather I say ‘hilarious’ to contextualize....
shameless, porny, incorrigible, raunchy visual lyrics about sex, food, the body, work, obsessions, anticipations, pride, innocence, love, and other sensations of self-inquiry....
contemporary conventional modern day musings!

I enjoyed it.
Didn’t feel poems....
It felt listening to a woman share not terribly shocking-things — but it did lurk considerable complexities-
things not often spoken out loud —
so, that made it as funny as it was twisted.

Unfiltered, jocular.....
and, I d it!!
Would listen to Catherine Cohen again! Steph640 396

you're surprised when I tell you I pray
but I the idea of wanting something
all the way
into space

(from "poem I wrote after I took a photo of my tits with a self-timer alone an adult")
this was meant to be my last read of 2021, but instead it's my first of 2022! and what's more, i read it on my phone. how modern of me, right?

I'm in the kitchen alone, which is romantic in a way
anything can be romantic if you sigh a lot

(from "poem I wrote after I masturbated while wearing airpods")
it's a collection of sometimes dark, sometimes funny, often relatable poems about being filled with the existential dread of the times. the titles are memorable and quirky, but i do wish the titles tied in more closely with the content poems. sometimes they make sense, but sometimes they feel completely unrelated. and sometimes the poems feel a smushed combination of three random events / feelings / observations; and again, i wish they vibed with each other better.

jealousy is cool because it is swallowing a house
that you just set on fire

(from "poem I wrote after I asked my personal trainer if he believed in god")
nonetheless, a lot of them resonate with me. if you find these poems unrelatable, then you will ly hate them. if you can relate, then hopefully you'll enjoy.

I felt so serious spelling out I Love You.
(and putting a period at the end)
so you would know I really meant it
I only meant it because I was lonely
but I don't see at all why that wouldn't count

(from "poem I wrote after you told me 'I don't think you're as amazing as you think you are'")ebook-laptop-phone first-read-in-2022 poetry34 s1 comment Erin2,275 33

It’s hard to review this book. She’s clever and funny but this collection is basically the fleshed out tweets from a smart, young, beauty-privileged woman. I’m very over the “conventionally attractive person feels cold towards the world but also can’t stop telling us how much sex they have with strangers,” but I guess that still translates as literary in some circles. 33 s David J217 280

I haven't disd a poetry collection this much since Rupi Kaur. Cohen tries way too hard to provide #relatablecontent and it comes off as just random babble. These are meant to be comedic, but I don't think I laughed or chuckled or even smirked once. I don't want to say it was a complete waste of my time but...anticipated-2021 poetry21 s1 comment Julie Ehlers1,115 1,515

At first, I thought it was funny, a comedy routine. Then I thought it was surprisingly good, poetry. Then it got to be a bit much. I was left with the feeling that I would not want to be a young woman today, and that living in New York City seems kind of a crazy thing to do.audio free-library poetry18 s ketsy381 13

Catherine Cohen, a well-travelled Princeton graduate, is not what came to mind when I read "a welcome new breed of everywoman." Do you know how unrelatable Paris trips and a fine arts education are to most women?

Anyway. That bit of criticism to her marketing team aside, this is certainly a collection that will speak to the horny-30-something-white-millenial woman. A lot of this was even funny and clever, just not particularly worthy of 80 printed pages.2021 poetry read-on-audio ...more15 s literaryelise403 125

Reading this made me wish I was illiterate 16 s Aria101 8

oh no the handsome guy is trying to do comedy??? oh no the polyamorous couple is taking a cooking class??? ultimately and unfortunately when a woman makes really specific observations about being in your 20s sometimes in new york i think it’s brilliant 12 s Laura87

poem I wrote after reading God I Feel Modern Tonight

I think I d most of the poems
isn't it funny how women always say "I think"
before saying what they know is fact?
I especially enjoyed the poem about dieting
did I log in my Weight Watcher points today?
how is Kirkland's single-serve hummus five points but
I can eat all the eggs in this carton and still be at zero?
how I feel when reading well-written poetry
and bring out my old red pencil that I stole from
a crush in fifth grade and attempt to write
on a blank journal page
If all these mentions and reflections are true,
then Catherine Cohen has lived an exciting life. 11 s Brend574 906

This is the collection of tweets by a person you followed only because they knew you in real life and would feel bad blocking, so you just mute them.

The person who makes a TikTok account to do story-times about their dating life cause no one s them enough after the first date to ever come back for a second one so they're bored at 1am.8 s2 comments Miranda326 21

This collection of poems is so sneaky and clever and made me want to write, which I think is what good books do to me. I love the big feelings of messiness and emotion and figuring it out and being unhappy and also just the way it feels to be ~alive~ as described in these poems. It made me desperately miss “normal,” and , walking to the subway on a humid summer eve after work or running around and feeling weird at parties. If you to laugh and also simultaneously be touched by poignant turns of phrase then this book of poems may be for you.own poetry7 s Rikki King148 12

"you're surprised when I tell you I pray
but I the idea of wanting something
all the way
into space"
There are some really funny and earnest jewels this one sprinkled throughout the collection, and I enjoyed the read.

But.. I don't know if it's fair to judge a book or author by the intro and blurb, but I really hate when a person who went to Princeton and talks a lot about Paris is described as an "everywoman".6 s Anne-Marie542 2

Full disclosure that I'm still trying to find my niche/preferences in poetry and am in no way an expert.

That said... I didn't love this collection. She may be described as a (the) voice of this (Millennial) generation but she's not my voice. I had a hard time relating to her experiences (at least as told in this writing style). I did a few poems - usually a few lines that made me laugh or connect with her (we're close in age) or that were really well crafted. But mostly I found it basic and the poem content disjointed from its title, which focuses on the cause/context of why she wrote the poem and not to the content of the poem itself (again not my preference).
A lot of poetic musings and commentary on Millennial life in Brooklyn/NYC with her fuck-ups, hook-ups, and anxiety about what people think of her. However the few poems that were written during/focused on the pandemic I really appreciated and related to.

Overall not my cup of tea but I can see a lot of 20 and 30 somethings really connecting and enjoying her poetry. booktube-made-me-read-it poetry-and-plays quarantine-20217 s Chloe38 4

I d about 4 of the poems in this collection. The rest were about fingering, yeast infections, and Instagram. Gag. 6 s T BB9225 2

Weird but into it. 4 s Alice Manderson23 1 follower

Obsessed with prose that reads Tweets but couldn’t relate except when she talks about her vagina and also crying in Europe listening to Lana Del Ray. Would give 3.5 stars if I could but I followed the author on Instagram which I feel she would appreciate more 5 s Ella Dixon120 15

no one is talking about this book as one of the greatest books of poetry this year. I find that personally offensive because it’s Rupi Kaur but for people who are awful the way that I am awful and also actually know how to read. 2021-reads ella-s-library favorites ...more5 s Shwan Fraidoon AbdulqaderAuthor 1 book32

I don’t even know what to say. It feels weird to read this.poetry5 s Julia505 44

this poetry gave me whiplash20215 s Taylor Nasinec29 2

we should both get more into therapy I think 5 s Sydney Arvanitas358 2

I honestly can't tell the difference between good poetry and bad poetry, but so many of these made me laugh so I'm gonna say they were a success...?poetry5 s Lena , süße Maus283 6

it's so crazy how I'm literally a girl who's about town right this very moment?5 s Erin Cataldi2,342 88

I picked up this book solely because of the cover art so I really didn't know what I was getting myself into. An interesting collection of poetry that ranges from introspection, sex, New York City, UTIs, ex boyfriends, and more. I'm not a great critic of poetry so I'm not sure how this rates as a whole - but it was very interesting. I really d the poem titles and there were a few standouts that I re-read - but overall the collection was just ok. If you're looking for humorous, edgy, and unique then you will love this collection. If the TV show, Girls, had a book of poetry based off it - I assume it would be this exact collection. 20214 s Taylor Griggs145 3

Ok so listen as some of you will know (bc I told you) I read this book very quickly while in a Barnes and Noble right after I got my eyes dilated. But during that time I formed some thoughts that I would to write down. I certainly welcome other input (not that a ton of discourse usually goes down in my goodreads comments but I’m just saying)

First I will tell you one of my favorite poems. It’s from Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems,” which I could see Cat Cohen emulating a bit. Here it is:

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an invitation to lunch
HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT?
when I only have 16 cents and 2
packages of yoghurt
there’s a lesson in that, isn’t there
in Chinese poetry when a leaf falls?
hold off on the yoghurt till the very
last, when everything may improve

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Much Cohen’s poems, this is short with no rhyme scheme. It seems it could be about nothing. But it employs literary devices that Cohen does not really attempt. And it is much more meaningful for that reason.

In case you accuse me of being sexist or elitist or romanticizing the past, here’s another of my favorite poems. This one is by Britney Spears and was posted as an Instagram caption in May 2021. To me it is about the freedom we felt at that time when it seemed the pandemic was over, as well as the freedom Britney desired when she was under her conservatorship. I genuinely think it’s really meaningful.

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Where are we going beautiful
people???? We going to Asia ... Europe... Australia.
... Kansas ... the arcade ... the candy
store ... HOME ? ???? What do you think
these ladies would find in the deep ocean???? Sharks
... fish ... turtles???? Tell me, what do you think FAM
?!?!

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I didn’t include the emojis ‘cause they didn’t copy and paste but look it up for the full poem bc those are a part of it. The photo goes along with it too.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CO_l8yIg8...

And here is one of Cat Cohen’s poems from this book. the title is: poem I wrote last night when I couldn't go to sleep because there are no sheets on my bed because I perioded on my other sheets and cannot be bothered to put new ones on

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I'm sorry I friended your fiancé on facebook
I just meant to look at his profile pictures
I was on my phone
I haven't spoken to you in at least seven years
but you can't get engaged to your personal trainer
and not have me stalk him

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