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A review by allieveryday
I Must Belong Somewhere: Poetry and Prose by Dawn Lanuza
5.0
I devoured this book and was ready to give it 5 stars early on.
Lanuza's poems are simple but articulate and beautiful and relatable. She doesn't use flowery language, complex grammar or poetic style, big bold words. I think her stories and emotions are able to read clearly is because they don't get lost behind useless adjectives and superfluous words. And there is something about the way she arranges words, simple everyday words, that expresses emotions and pain elegantly and as a reader I felt them and many times thought "She has perfectly expressed everything I could never find the words for". But it didn't cut me to the core like other poetry books (that I had to put down, lovely but painful), Lanuza's words real and relatable as they were, were more the reflecting kind for me. After many poems I found myself staring into space, letting the words sink in, the feelings sink in.
This is absolutely a book I intend to buy, need to own, need to feel, to mark my favorite poems, would buy for friends.
Lanuza's poems are simple but articulate and beautiful and relatable. She doesn't use flowery language, complex grammar or poetic style, big bold words. I think her stories and emotions are able to read clearly is because they don't get lost behind useless adjectives and superfluous words. And there is something about the way she arranges words, simple everyday words, that expresses emotions and pain elegantly and as a reader I felt them and many times thought "She has perfectly expressed everything I could never find the words for". But it didn't cut me to the core like other poetry books (that I had to put down, lovely but painful), Lanuza's words real and relatable as they were, were more the reflecting kind for me. After many poems I found myself staring into space, letting the words sink in, the feelings sink in.
This is absolutely a book I intend to buy, need to own, need to feel, to mark my favorite poems, would buy for friends.