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Scissors and Paper Hearts
A love story composed in the art of poetry,follow her evolution as she places her heart within her lovers hands and holds on for dear life, until she realizes it hurts to stop, holding onto love white knuckled, refusing fate.Her life becomes the tragic story of pain and hate, unable to grasp the thought of losing what they built. Her journey defined as she writes her way through every thought of ending it all in the name of love. Feel her ache through loss and witness her spiral that defines her soul. Will she survive her fall from grace or end up down a toxic road, where she cannot find her way back and her only road is her retribution.
258 pages, Paperback
Published February 3, 2017
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March 27, 2017
I read her poetry book and couldn't put it down. It is a poetry book full of passionate verse and full of a soul that touches your heart. "She was the exception to every rule," her poem "Undiscovered" begins and that is essentially how the entire book grabs you. It shakes you bends you, and makes you search deep inside yourself for that love that broke you.
Lex Letters' poetry evokes a yearning for lovers and longing, never quite fulfilled. It is as if lovers are talking, writing poems to each other. In her poem, "Hate" this excerpt stood out for me:
"Breathing is for the living
The rest of us are dying to survive
on expelled breaths and ink
forcing feeling onto paper
trying to make sense of the pain."
Her poems take you to the past, the present pain and the distant future. The poems mostly live in the past and recount a relationship in moments she can't forget through memories of being loved and of loving. Take this passage from her poem, "Imagine" where she tells us where she writes from, "I write from an internal beckoning, a raw and emotional grave."
In this collection "Scissors and Paper Hearts" there is poetry that heals, letting go of a loved one, breaking up, scorned lovers, rage and a tumultuous love affair. I will not spoil the ending, but it is gut-wrenching.
In the poem, "Unsaid," it begins, "Paper hearts stained, folded into letters, stuffed in pockets, left to be unread." This, in essence is the crux of this poetry book. How we all live in glass houses, how worlds can fall apart in love, how passionately we can love another person, sometimes even more than they can possibly love us, resulting in an emptiness that most people who fall in love recognize and can connect with her poems. I highly recommend this poetry book.
Lex Letters' poetry evokes a yearning for lovers and longing, never quite fulfilled. It is as if lovers are talking, writing poems to each other. In her poem, "Hate" this excerpt stood out for me:
"Breathing is for the living
The rest of us are dying to survive
on expelled breaths and ink
forcing feeling onto paper
trying to make sense of the pain."
Her poems take you to the past, the present pain and the distant future. The poems mostly live in the past and recount a relationship in moments she can't forget through memories of being loved and of loving. Take this passage from her poem, "Imagine" where she tells us where she writes from, "I write from an internal beckoning, a raw and emotional grave."
In this collection "Scissors and Paper Hearts" there is poetry that heals, letting go of a loved one, breaking up, scorned lovers, rage and a tumultuous love affair. I will not spoil the ending, but it is gut-wrenching.
In the poem, "Unsaid," it begins, "Paper hearts stained, folded into letters, stuffed in pockets, left to be unread." This, in essence is the crux of this poetry book. How we all live in glass houses, how worlds can fall apart in love, how passionately we can love another person, sometimes even more than they can possibly love us, resulting in an emptiness that most people who fall in love recognize and can connect with her poems. I highly recommend this poetry book.
June 11, 2017
A heart, spilling raw and honest feelings, taking shape of beautiful words written on every page.
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