A review by lifeinpoetry
I Have Never Been Able to Sing by Alexis Almeida

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.