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wrong day to wear a dress: chronicles of thoughts by Naissa Amada
5.0
I was sent this book in exchange for an honest review. This in no way changes my opinions and all the word below are my own.
This book is called "chronicles of thoughts" and they take the form of free verse poetry. First and foremost, I LOVE that this book started out with a little label saying that the entire book is thoughts and opinions about a specific very personal tale. "Write what you know" is a common writing tool for a reason, and many poets feel a need to change what they know to be more relatable. I do not believe that is the case at all, and this book truly proved it.
With that said, I will admit I am usually partial to more formatted, storytelling poetry for particular reasons. However, this book basically destroyed most of those reasons. My biggest plight with free verse poetry books is that the poems do not have to connect to one another, but that often makes me forget them more easily and lose understanding of the book as a whole. Wrong Day to Wear a Dress didn't do that to me. I could easily so the flow of a real-life story and found that I could easily remember details of a poem from a hundred pages ago as it connected to the one I was then reading. I love that so much. The book was even broken up into appropriate chapters. It was like seeing pictures all taken at the same event but at different times, you are given enough to form a story but the freedom that poetry usually requires remained intact.
I also loved all of the illustrations, and that they were done by the author as well. It felt like a full work of art that she created.
Overall, even though free voice poetry makes for quite unique writing that is not up everyone's alley, I really enjoyed this book. I felt more connected to the poetry than I normally do when topics are not super relatable to me.
This book is called "chronicles of thoughts" and they take the form of free verse poetry. First and foremost, I LOVE that this book started out with a little label saying that the entire book is thoughts and opinions about a specific very personal tale. "Write what you know" is a common writing tool for a reason, and many poets feel a need to change what they know to be more relatable. I do not believe that is the case at all, and this book truly proved it.
With that said, I will admit I am usually partial to more formatted, storytelling poetry for particular reasons. However, this book basically destroyed most of those reasons. My biggest plight with free verse poetry books is that the poems do not have to connect to one another, but that often makes me forget them more easily and lose understanding of the book as a whole. Wrong Day to Wear a Dress didn't do that to me. I could easily so the flow of a real-life story and found that I could easily remember details of a poem from a hundred pages ago as it connected to the one I was then reading. I love that so much. The book was even broken up into appropriate chapters. It was like seeing pictures all taken at the same event but at different times, you are given enough to form a story but the freedom that poetry usually requires remained intact.
I also loved all of the illustrations, and that they were done by the author as well. It felt like a full work of art that she created.
Overall, even though free voice poetry makes for quite unique writing that is not up everyone's alley, I really enjoyed this book. I felt more connected to the poetry than I normally do when topics are not super relatable to me.