Title: In a Dream You Saw a Way to SurviveAuthor: Clementine von Radics
Pages: 96 pages
Version: Ebook (ARC)
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Rating: ★★★
Synopsis
A lyrical poet, Clementine von Radics presents In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive, a collection of brutally honest poetry that lends itself to the powerful anthem of survival.
This collection bravely explores life at its darkest and most inspiring moments – drawing on central themes of love, loss, mental health, and abuse. An attempt to understand and to be understood, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive is an ode to vulnerability that delivers concentrated, thought-provoking, and earnest verse
Review
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In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive is a poetry collection about love, cheating, abortion, loss, abuse and consists of two parts.
You spend years building a home
just to watch it destroyed in seconds.
This is the first poetry collection I read by Clementine von Radics and I liked it. There were some beautiful poems I could relate to and I liked that Clementine was really raw and honest.
My healing is ugly.
My edges cracked and uninspiring.
But still, they are my edges.
Still, I am healing.
There were some poems that were okay but I could still feel the emotion behind her words. I cannot wait to read some of her other poetry collections!
I’m saying I loved a man for years
thinking he was the bandage
only to realize he was the wound.
- Storm
- You aplogize for your mistake
- The Fear
- Ever the optimist
- Post-term
- To the protester outside of the clinic who called me a murderer
- Bitter
- A bird flew
- Notes on the term survivor
- You are on the floor crying
- For Vincent van Gogh, Patron Saint of Psychotic Manic Depressives