This startlingly honest book follows the ladder of a life for seventy-five years, in poems that show how much is connected. Unlocking the voice of a silenced, powerless girl, Feaver writes about an apparently stable childhood which, to her, was painfully insecure: tormented with parental expectations and sibling jealousy, torn between mother and grandmother. The eleven-year-old who wanted to become a poet becomes the woman 'buried under ice with words burning inside', who becomes the old woman still 'searching for words' - fearful now of memory loss and a failing body.
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(@vintagebooks, 21 November 2019, e-book, 76 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveInc, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a collection of at least 24 poems)
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I've enjoyed other books by the author and decided to read I Want! I Want! because I liked the title and cover. I enjoyed this collection a lot. I really like the title poem. It spoke to me. I understand the feeling of being so consumed by something you can't see or think of anything else. This poem really resonated with me, slightly more than the rest of the poems. I enjoyed every poem this collection had to offer. I'd recommend this book.
