redgoddessreads 's review for:

A Bright and Borrowed Light: Poems by Courtney Kampa

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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This is what I call thinking poetry. Some had me reading them numerous times, each time looking for a new word, anew meaning, a new feeling, a new thought. Each, like fine art, interpreted by the voyeur. Conclusions while sometimes never reached; allow others to feel as though they have solved the mystery behind the words.  My tears flowed during “ It’s you I Like” and then again as I am informed that the artist whose prose I have just spent the better part of a week devouring and digesting, is no longer with us. Oh to be introduced to one of your new favorite authors only to find that you will never have the chance to see what comes next. So I will go backwards and review the prose that came before and admire the life that was to briefly lived.