A review by rosa44
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

emotional hopeful tense slow-paced

5.0

"I have no more poems. My mind blanks. A roar tears from my mouth. “Burn it! Burn it. This is where the poems are,” I say, thumping a fist against my chest. “Will you burn me? Will you burn me, too? You would burn me, wouldn’t you, if you could?”"