I am not much for reading biographies or memoirs (unless obsessed with the subject/memoirist), but this book made me wish that there were more biographies in verse, or certainly made me think to seek out more. The multiplicity of voices and forms and the way they construct the narrative is much mo...
An uneven collection, but some of the stories in here are very much worth reading. I'd definitely recommend trying it. I especially liked the Nisi Shawl story, and the one by Kevin Brockenbrough. Some of the stories seemed a little much of a muchness, a few days after reading them they sort of bl...