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I received a free copy of this book from the author, Loren Kleinman, in exchange for an honest review.
Breakable Things is a collection of 54 poems written completely in free-verse. Each poem is not terribly long with great imagery as I can clearly picture each poem as a scene in my head. Here are some of my favorite lines from three of the poems.
Breakable Things provides a testament that while everything can be broken, it can also be fixed or brought back together again. Loren Kleinman uses various objects as a metaphor of a human; we can piece ourselves back together again after we shatter. Kind of like the lyrics from the song Still I Rise by Yolanda Adams.
Breakable Things is a collection of 54 poems written completely in free-verse. Each poem is not terribly long with great imagery as I can clearly picture each poem as a scene in my head. Here are some of my favorite lines from three of the poems.
“First-Date Oysters”
Death takes the shape
of an oyster tonight.
I swallow it.
“We Are Meant to Be in the Drawer”
“Dying a little each day
is better than having to face the living.”
“We Are Already Ghosts”
“No mistakes,
Only footprints
And pebbles on the road.”
Breakable Things provides a testament that while everything can be broken, it can also be fixed or brought back together again. Loren Kleinman uses various objects as a metaphor of a human; we can piece ourselves back together again after we shatter. Kind of like the lyrics from the song Still I Rise by Yolanda Adams.
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