lifeinpoetry's review
5.0
Another chapbook available via the Ugly Duckling Presse Online Chapbook Archive:
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/archive/online-chapbook-archive/
I'd definitely pay for a full-length book of this. This felt that it ended nearly as quickly as it began, with gorgeous moments like:
Does intimacy follow the illusion of intimacy. I have grown more cautious. I am not striving for subtlety. I don't believe doors are objects. I don't rely on mirror images. I will never look past all these fields in my mind.
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/archive/online-chapbook-archive/
I'd definitely pay for a full-length book of this. This felt that it ended nearly as quickly as it began, with gorgeous moments like:
Does intimacy follow the illusion of intimacy. I have grown more cautious. I am not striving for subtlety. I don't believe doors are objects. I don't rely on mirror images. I will never look past all these fields in my mind.
ceah_reads's review
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I Have Never Been Able to Sing is sometimes funny, sometimes startling poignant, always a window into both Alemida and we the readers. My full review is available here.
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