Triggers: References to abuse

I got this book as a freebie on Amazon due to an author event. While I am new to reading poetry and analyzing still. This book really did speak to me, and there were a lot of the poems that just spoke to me on a soul level, which I think it was supposed to. And for the poems that I didn't necessarily relate to, there was still understanding and being to relate and really feel what the writer was trying to say and get across. 

This book does play with sexuality, and while most mentions of it are subtle, I did like that. (i.e., not all of the relationships are necessarily to be interpreted as heterosexual, at least not IMO). I also like the fact that familial interactions were investigated and displayed. And while I couldn't necessarily relate to each poem due to personal experience, I still did get a raw response from what the author wrote.

Not all of the poems are short, which didn't really hurt the book but it was something that I did not expect to see.  

All in all, I did like this, and I'm glad I read it. It really is a great book of poetry.

So, I'm not sure if I've really talked about it on here but if you follow me on Twitter you've probably seen it, but basically I love poetry. I'm a huge poetry lover. Anyway, I found out about this author through Tumblr, and by extension Twitter, and even on those sites, a lot of the words that this author wrote spoke to be deeply--as a person of color, as a woman, as a woman of color, pain and loss, love. A lot of the poems I read I found myself nodding furiously and just agreeing with. 

While this book does contain a lot of her work from online, there are still that are new and weren't posted online. And even if it was just a compilation of her online work, I'd still consider reading it because of just how lovely and deep her words went for me personally. 

This was a quick read; most of the poems are kind of short and don't go on for too long. This is not a bad thing, and I love how the author is able to get the point across with the lines/words that are used. 

I could go on and on why I like this book of poetry. I really could. I seriously recommend reading. 

Okay, so, I've finished this up. I wanted to give myself a minute to think about it though. All in all, I did like it. The entries were very interesting, and as I said earlier, they all seemed to follow the entirety of the relationship between "I" and "You". They were all pretty interesting, and I did kind of like how the entries didn't necessarily go in order--or at least, they felt out of order. As said before, all of the entries were very poetic. Sometimes, I did feel they were a little over poetic, if that makes sense. But, all in all, i did enjoy it, and felt the entries were deep and had meaning. So, all in all, glad I picked it up. 

So, I've read some more of this. I'm still liking. I can't really tell if this is covering one relationship or multiple relationships the "I" protagonist had. It feels and sounds like one in my opinion but I could be interpreting it wrong. However, it is one, their "story" (I and you's) is told out of order--going from when they first met, when they had their first few dates, when they starting dating, and etc. So, I find that kind of interesting. All of the pieces obviously tie in to one another, but their are a few that use a previous entry as like a starting point or epigraph.  

So, I'm also reading this, and it's very poetic but also kind prose-y I guess. (Yes, I know "Preose-y" is not a word.) But point being, I like it. I would say that it helps if you either know the word being used for each definition or have a dictionary handy. This is simply because each entry is a, using a fan fiction term here, drabble or something similar to that. What I do like is that for the most part the pronouns, "I" and "You" are used so, you can make each entry about anyone you want. And I also found that very interesting. But that could be, with the exception of some poetry, I haven't really a lot of second-person or "you"-directed stuff. So, I do like it.