Melissa Studdard

I love this so much. SO MUCH. The poems were great, the topics were great, even formatting the book into an application was such a great idea. It feels more like an honest reply to questions we're asked all the time: Why do you want to be here? What can you do? What have you done?

The topics ranged from experience, love, and purpose. And many of the poems are written in stream of consciousness, which is probably one of my favorite poetry methods when it comes to any free verse poetry. There is some LGBTQ in here, but it's not exclusively LGBTQ so I won't mark it as such, though many of the love poems are directed at a man or no specified gender, she does say she falls in love with a woman and a non-binary.

My favorite poems outside of the hard hitter 'Dear Selection Committee', are probably 'In the House, I Built Another House', 'The Pain Is So Resplendent It Has Babies', and 'When My Lover Says Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia'.

Honestly, probably going to write Melissa a letter or email or something, I loved this that much. If you see this Melissa and haven't gotten anything from a Randi yet, that's because I'm trying to find the best words to articulate my feelings, too.… (mehr)

My Yehidah is a companion piece to Six Weeks to Yehidah, and it contains activities and questions, that ask readers to think about themselves. Also contained in this work are illustrations that give visual symbols about what some of the terms used are in Six Weeks to Yehidah. So, this review will be more of me answering those questions...well some of them. It's not very long and can be read rather quickly, though if you choose to do the activities maybe longer.I think this a great book for self-evaluation, and would recommend to any age. You are your greatest inspiration.… (mehr)