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Burn Marks
In her highly anticipated follow-up to, The Weighted Heart, Lacie Shea's Burn Marks, ignites readers' memories of love, loss and the lessons between. Written in micro poetry style, with longer prose throughout, Burn Marks fans the flames of lovers and carries the broken hearted out of the ashes.
- GenresPoetry
213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 22, 2021
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April 1, 2021
"Some love stories are best between pages;
not between the sheets."
The thing with micro poetry is that it is easy to read, but hard to swallow at times. The right words, the sense-ridden similes, the rhythmic playfulness, the sadness - it's all here in Lacie Shea's Burn Marks. It paints a beautiful understanding of her experiences, either lived or imagined.
The book is divided up into 3 sections: Sparks, Flames, and Ashes. It's clearly about love, just not the kind that lasts, at least not in the way we see it played out on screen. It's hard to feel lucky with heartbreak, but those who have experienced it, get a more full picture of what it is to feel fantasy and hope, yearning, falling, and reality and readiness. We learn how to say goodbye even if it doesn't get easier years later. Heartbreak allows you to feel alive.
As with her debut poetry book, this one will stay on the nightstand for those moments when I need to feel connected to the feelings that are only to be entrusted to paper.
not between the sheets."
The thing with micro poetry is that it is easy to read, but hard to swallow at times. The right words, the sense-ridden similes, the rhythmic playfulness, the sadness - it's all here in Lacie Shea's Burn Marks. It paints a beautiful understanding of her experiences, either lived or imagined.
The book is divided up into 3 sections: Sparks, Flames, and Ashes. It's clearly about love, just not the kind that lasts, at least not in the way we see it played out on screen. It's hard to feel lucky with heartbreak, but those who have experienced it, get a more full picture of what it is to feel fantasy and hope, yearning, falling, and reality and readiness. We learn how to say goodbye even if it doesn't get easier years later. Heartbreak allows you to feel alive.
As with her debut poetry book, this one will stay on the nightstand for those moments when I need to feel connected to the feelings that are only to be entrusted to paper.
January 1, 2024
I added Burn Marks to one of my Amazon lists probably two years ago at this point and when I was going through it looking for something to read, I saw it again and I liked the cover, so I thought I’d pick it up now. I read that it was the second book and figured I might as well go ahead and read the first book before starting this one. I enjoyed The Weighted Heart and I was looking forward to reading Burn Marks next which is what I did. In hindsight, I maybe should have had some distance between these two collections because Burn Marks reminded me a lot of The Weighted Heart. The poems are different, but the themes just felt the same to me. It’s not a bad collection by any means and there was a poem I loved a fair amount to highlight, but as a whole, it just didn’t work for me the same way as the first. I will say that if you enjoyed The Weighted Heart, I’m sure you’ll feel similarly about Burn Marks and you should give it a read.
~ Sonja, 3 Stars
~ Sonja, 3 Stars
September 9, 2021
hmmm
Honestly the book wasn’t bad. It was a very desperate approach about how a girl would be reaching towards her ex. How she would still be so madly in love with him even though he’s spending his entire life with a whole Other woman. I understand the gist of heartbreak but I feel like this is too painful. Maybe the author was trying to explain her pain or explain the pain of heartbreak which I would say was explained well. A lot of questions that one would have during heartbreak will definitely mention in this book. It’s nice to read.
Honestly the book wasn’t bad. It was a very desperate approach about how a girl would be reaching towards her ex. How she would still be so madly in love with him even though he’s spending his entire life with a whole Other woman. I understand the gist of heartbreak but I feel like this is too painful. Maybe the author was trying to explain her pain or explain the pain of heartbreak which I would say was explained well. A lot of questions that one would have during heartbreak will definitely mention in this book. It’s nice to read.
November 28, 2021
Burn Marks
Lacie Shea's Burn Marks is raw, poignant, and soul burning of what it means to be in the aftermath of a relationship. Highly recommend this poetry book and it's author to all those in need who habe been through the aftermath of a relationship.
Lacie Shea's Burn Marks is raw, poignant, and soul burning of what it means to be in the aftermath of a relationship. Highly recommend this poetry book and it's author to all those in need who habe been through the aftermath of a relationship.
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