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Scraps
An invitation to my young adult life. A discovery of self through words on scraps of paper, within journals I thought no one would see and poems that have been rejected time and again. This book is a place for that part of my life to live and a wish that people will see themselves on these pages. That they will know we're all connected and deserving of life and everything it has to offer.
115 pages, Paperback
Published November 18, 2019
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June 18, 2024
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August 6, 2020I read this self-published collection earlier today outside. The poems are mostly quick thoughts that capture ideas and as I read, there was a rhythm I contemplated while holding the book over my face, covering the sun, watching the clouds pass by as I turned each page.
My favorite poems were the ones that went beyond mere moments and immersed me in an image, a scene and thus they tended to be the longer ones in form spread throughout the book.
There are times I wished the shorter poems were explored more but as I continued to dwell on that thought, I asked myself, who am I to demand more when there can be a lot said in just a few words. Minimalism is an art that I’m still learning to further appreciate in poetry and perhaps it derives from my understanding of poetry to that of telling a story and my love for lengthy run-on sentences. A lot of words are used to evoke feeling in a novel that can be perfectly captured with feeling in a short form like a haiku. Scraps is surely just the first steps of a poet on the rise and I look forward to seeing how her poetry shapes up in her next collection! 🙂
My favorite poems were the ones that went beyond mere moments and immersed me in an image, a scene and thus they tended to be the longer ones in form spread throughout the book.
There are times I wished the shorter poems were explored more but as I continued to dwell on that thought, I asked myself, who am I to demand more when there can be a lot said in just a few words. Minimalism is an art that I’m still learning to further appreciate in poetry and perhaps it derives from my understanding of poetry to that of telling a story and my love for lengthy run-on sentences. A lot of words are used to evoke feeling in a novel that can be perfectly captured with feeling in a short form like a haiku. Scraps is surely just the first steps of a poet on the rise and I look forward to seeing how her poetry shapes up in her next collection! 🙂
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