I received an e-ARC of this poetry collection from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I love the writing style of this author. When I read Shine Your Icy Crown at the beginning of this year, I was transfixed by her writing style and immediately went and read every other collection of her poetry that I could get my hands on. Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things delivers her signature style of writing pressed between pages of stunning art to divide the poems. This collection, like her others, does deal with mature and sensitive topics in an honest and open way.
Lovelace captures the duality of women being expected to be soft or to burn out their softness to be fierce and suggests that you do not have to choose between the two, you can be soft and fierce. The use of Persephone as the epitome of this duality ties this collection together. The art pages showing flowering fields blooming and burning visually showcases the themes of this collection and how they coexist as two sides of the same situation.