I find the fish swimming through the girl's head in the first one to be very distracting, disturbing, in fact.
I like 2 or 3, not sure I love the font, though. It's so curly I find the words hard to distinguish.
Option 2 would make me expect sad, maybe mournful poems, while option 3 feels more hopeful and potentially upbeat.
I prefer the first one but would suggest recoloring the under-eye area to avoid it looking like bruises and maybe going for a slightly easier-to-read font. They are all workable covers.
I like the first one. The big, possibly troubled face is interesting. She looks like she has stuff to tell. It also gives me a good idea of what the book is about- her, a young woman's perspective and life.
The whale just confuses me, in a coming-of-age collection. I'm also less drawn in to the more distant pics on number two and three.
I'm having a really hard time integrating "coming of age", "whales", and "slide a mirror to me". Maybe I'd pick it up out of curiousity, but whatever your message is, I'm not receiving it clearly. That's a problem for a cover.
Hard choice because they're all solid to me. (I expect the cover of a poetry book to be more evocative than declarative, so I don't share the others' concerns.) I'll take #3 mostly on gut feeling. #1 is interesting, but it takes me a couple beats to process what's going on.
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