by breathwords | May 7, 2020 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
Serendipity is book of poetry by Samantha Modica that captures love and heartbreak in vivid detail. Her use of allusion and metaphor allows her stories to reach out to the reader. Her poems read almost like a novel, mini snapshots of a larger story that lingers in...
by breathwords | May 2, 2020 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
Black Hearts, Bullet Wounds and Barrooms by Ruby Stein and Angeline Roberts I can’t tell you how happy I was to finally sit down and read this book. Black Hearts, Bullet Wounds and Barrooms is volume one of an anthology written by two ladies whose melancholy...
by breathwords | Apr 23, 2020 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
I go through periods with poetry. Sometimes, I want deep insight, others I want that simple line that reaches out. In All The Things I Never Said, Mae Krell has points where she delivers both. When this book was published, Krell was only fourteen. Some have criticized...
by breathwords | Mar 9, 2020 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
Mouthful of Forevers is a poetry book by Clementine von Radics that pulls at the heart strings. She reaches out to her readers, sharing her story in poems and prose. She manages to elicit emotion with every page, every line. Normally, I’m not a fan of romance or...
by breathwords | Sep 11, 2019 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
Many authors have a way of touching the heart, but Alfa reaches deeper. She speaks to the soul. In I Needed a Viking, she reminds us of our own strength. She raises us up and readies us for battle because who better to fight for us than us. In the first section,...
by breathwords | Jun 21, 2019 | Books Teach Me to Breathe
I am A World of Uncertainties Disguised as a Girl by Nicole Lyons Right at the beginning, page 9, I stumbled onto one of the first poems that ever made the breath rush from my lungs. “The Next Big Thing” has since remained one of my all time favorites. Each time it...
