Known for her eponymous blog and her confessional style of writing, this is Trista Mateer's second collection of poetry.
*** [I have been told that girls always fall / for me like their fathers - (I AM A RUNNER] ***(Self-Published, 30 June 2015, first published 25 May 2015, ebook, 90 pages, bought from Amazon, Popsugar 2018 Reading Challenge, a past good reads choice awards winner)
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This is my first time reading the poet.
I really enjoyed The Dogs I Have Kissed. Mateer writes the kind of poetry I enjoy reading and writing myself, confessional pieces, poetry taken from her own life and experiences and turned into something different. I personally think the best poems are autobiographical. I really don't like poems about nature and the like. I like poets who cut their heart open to show me how red their blood really is. I almost felt like I was sharing something intimate, personal and at times, painful with Mateer. I could relate to so many of these poems.
