A review by kstookley
Say It Hurts by Lisa Summe

5.0

This approachable book of poetry has a narrative arc somewhat reminiscent of Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Flows artfully as it dissects relationships to family, gender, sexuality, and plain old romantic relationships. Having many of the poems with the same title demonstrates how these issues come up again and again and again in a life (the most obvious, of course, are the three different poems called "Coming Out," because every queer knows that you need to come out again and again and again).