A review by zarvindale
The Highest Hiding Place: Poems by Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

4.0

I’m glad I revisited this debut poetry collection years after I read it. Now that I have a firmer grasp of poetry and language, I have come to understand Lawrence Lacambra Ypil’s attempts at dramatizing the city and youth. This book is composed of observations of homes, landscapes, and the events that unfolded in between these sites of experiences. Although the writing style hinders a total understanding of the poems, they nevertheless get increasingly interesting, lyrical, and wistful. There’s an apparent objective of immortalizing memories on page, of looking back into the past, as if a window suddenly opens to reveal new, shifting frames of assorted views.