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I’m not sure what to say about change except that it reminds me of the Bible story with the lions’ den. But you are not named Daniel and you have not been praying, so God lets the beasts get a few deep, painful swipes at you before the morning comes and you’re pulled into the light, exhausted and cut to shit. She is the founder of Where Are You Press, a publishing house committed to publishing accessible, innovative poetry by a diversity of voices. Her work has been published in Whiskey Paper, Cahoodling, Women’s Health Magazine, and more. Her poem "For Teenage Girls" has been featured on Huffington Post, Upworthy, Everyday Feminism, and was chosen by Button Poetry as their 4th best poem of 2015. “For Teenage Girls” has since been adapted into an illustrated book by Andrews McMeel Universal. I can't say enough good things about this. It's totally refreshing to read a poetry book that has me highlighting at least one line from every single poem. My favorite was probably her poem called "Advice to Teenage Girls/with Wild Ambitions/and Trembling Hearts," which is a one about the world's teenage, female heroes that made me cry instantaneously. Here’s the first stanza: Mythical and entrancing, mermaids have captured the imagination of humans for a very long time. In fact, the first known appearance of mermaids in human culture seems to have occurred about 1000 BC in Assyria (in the middle east close to Syria and Iraq).

Another thing is that it’s internet poetry, it started online and I have immense respect for Von Radics for starting up Where Are You Press, it’s an amazing feat and I love what she’s trying to do with it. However, sometimes the internet bleeds into her poetry. There’s an ‘internet speak’ to it that falls completely out of place, for me, anyway, perhaps I only see it because I spend so much time on tumblr myself. And sometimes things just don’t seem to make a lot of sense? I own all of their books, "Dream Girl" being my favourite. I think I was looking for "In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive" to make me feel like "Dream Girl" did. And why wouldn't it! The title is a damn Holzer truism for crying out loud. The cover is gorgeous. Von Radic’s imagery and thoughts are so potent and fresh. They upset the inertia that I feel around contemporary poetry. Only a few poems in Part I hit me in the same way such as “A conversation between my therapist and the mouth that sometimes belongs to me”.VOX: I want to talk about a few of your poems. In “Patron Saint for Manic Depressives,” you ended by saying, “I will not apologize for what allows me to see the sky. Not tonight. Not ever again.” How did you get to this point of not apologizing for your mental illness?

Home» Animal Poems» 31 Beautiful Mermaid Poems To Use Animal Poems 31 Beautiful Mermaid Poems To Use Von radices, in Mouthful of Forevers, has mastered the art of expressing complex thoughts and feelings in a simple manner, and expressing simple thoughts in a rather complex way in other times. Her 2015 poem ‘For Teenage Girls’ went viral on YouTube with the words, “you don’t have to grow up to find greatness. You are so much stronger than the world ever believed you could be.”

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This is my first collection by the author that I have read, and I am happy that I did. Everything was written with raw and full emotions. It does not sugarcoat anything because it was written how the author had wanted the reader to understand it. Mostly it just feels banal and too obvious. There were no epiphanies, no surprises, and very few places where I thought “Huh, that’s interesting”. It presented life to me in a way that felt familiar and therefore trivial. It kept pushing to break boundaries, to be honest, but fell short almost every time and landed squarely in “well known and too worn” territory. Short and forgettable. I quite liked most of the poems in this collections. They deal with mental health, love, loss, social interactions, relationships and family. They are well written, the layout is interesting and the honesty in which issues are presented is raw yet rewarding: you can survive, life can be good.

I’m never going to have a different brain. I’m always going to be this person, and so the best I can do is to be kind and to be hardworking and to live honestly.” von Radics: I don’t tend to write about things that don’t touch me personally. I tend to be inspired by either cool concepts or sometimes cool historical figures I’ll read about, but I tend to write exclusively about my own experience. Poetry is best if you don’t try to write about something broad and complex. In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive is a poetry collection about love, cheating, abortion, loss, abuse and consists of two parts.Author’s voice from then and now, of course, had changed immensely! It was divided into two parts, when I began reading I had a hard time hitting the right tones of the voice. As to the experiences were not of mine personally nor I could connect with yet. It took me time to fully hit and felt emotions as to where and where it is all coming from; that was what I thought with the first part. As for the latter part, I liked it better! I felt the lyrical change and flow of the verses. Plus the good balance between the longer pieces and the short ones is something to note of. It does not come as overwhelming nor underwhelming to one.

I bought Wrong Side of a Fistfight and got “Home” for free with it, which is a good thing because I might otherwise have regretted buying it. I felt much the same about this poetry collection as I did with 'Love & Misadventure', it makes the same mistakes and has many of the same flaws. Poetry tends to be very hit and miss with me, especially collections that are incredibly personal for authors. Those stories are, of course, always important to tell. But I've come to realize that my enjoyment of poetry boils down to two things. First, how well I understand said poetry. Because if I'm being completely honest, sometimes it flies right over my head. And second, if I can relate to it. I've found that most of my favorite poetry, like the quote featured above, is poetry that I can relate to.Clementine von Radics is 24 year-old writer and publisher based in Portland, Oregon. She was born in Alameda, California and grew up in Medford, Oregon.

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