Aphrodite Made Me Do It
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Trista Mateer
Trista Mateer is a passionate mental health advocate, utilizing her large online platform (and her work) to destigmatize and springboard conversations surrounding grief, loss, trauma, anxiety, depression, etc. A multi-faceted creative force, Mateer is best known for Aphrodite Made Me Do It—a collection of art and poetry—which explores modern feminist issues through the lens of Greek mythology. Whatever she’s writing about, Mateer invites readers into a world where vulnerability is celebrated.
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Reviews for Aphrodite Made Me Do It
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Overall I'd give this a 3.5 / 5 stars! I adored the elements involving Aphrodite, and I loved how much of it felt like very sacred and personal- like I was reading someone's truest confessions. There were still some poems I didn't connect with as much, but overall, I very much enjoyed this.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not really enjoy it but I did love some arts in it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This poetry book was just so empowering and so beautifully written :((
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This so beautiful. So empowering. So relatable. I love it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I found this book to be really important and that a lot of women will relate to this.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This made me cry and feel things I didn't realize I needed to feel. Thank you.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summer 2019 (Netgalley, Kindle);
Thank you to Trista Mateer, Central Avenue Publishing, and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “Aphrodite Made Me Do It" for an honest review.
I jumped at this arc when it was both poetry and Aphrodite related, and then had the great pleasure of discovering it was Trista Mateer's poetry. This was a rich, biting book full of the reclamation of past and future women. I was really pleased to see some of Aphrodite's beginnings addressed, and with such anger toward the future, toward the controlling, cleaning up, and rewriting of women. I was absolutely not expecting the references/appearances of Eve and Pandora and Helen, each of which made the message and the links in the chain of this being done over and over to women through the writing even clearer.
The combination of healing and reclaiming of self, through the past, through love, through healing, was gorgeous. The confessional poetry style, overshot at times with lists and poetic prose kept me involved and invested in all the topics as they continued to be built on across the small text.
I cannot wait to buy a copy of this for myself and a friend of mine who loves all things poetry & Aphrodite. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short book of beautifully moving poetry and art
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prose poems can be hit or miss for me, but this collection has a really interesting premise, the language is engaging and the experiences are unfortunately all too relatable. I’ll probably even get a copy when it comes out.
Recommend (with caveats) for: Anyone who is or has struggled with healing from trauma. lovers of mythology who are interested in a rightfully and righteously angry Aphrodite.
Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to read and review this before it’s official release.