Looking for Me is a sweet and informative peek inside the life of a second generation Russian immigrant in Baltimore in the 1930’s. The author does create some beautiful imagery “In a year my entire planet will shrink to one locked hallway” and “Every time we came back to each other, his arms around me felt like the native country.” But the good moments were few and much of the text felt jostled and disjointed. This can be used successfully but in this piece feels clunky. Part of the problem is that the poems jump through time one in present tense, the next several years earlier and then into the future again. This book however reads terse, forced and unpolished. Her writing hits quick points, is passionate and powerful. Unfortunately, unlike the work of Ellen Hopkins ( Crank, Identical) which tackles difficult subject matter in a free flowing prose format. When I first started reading it seemed as if the book might be using an interesting and seldom used technique to delve into a persistent teen issue. Although the exercise of writing the book perhaps provedĬathartic for Corrigan, the reader gleans little from the disjointed prose and partially realized anecdotes. You Remind Me of You is a poetry memoir of author Corrigan’s experience living with an eating disorder and being partnered with a boyfriend who is a heavy drug user and attempts suicide. To say farewell to National Poetry Month I read one collection of poems for children the other for young adults.
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