Tuesday, December 4, 2018

"I Wrote"


“I Wrote”
Written by Alice Bogen
Review written by Diana Iozzia

I Wrote by Alice Bogen

 The experience of reading “I Wrote” was absolutely wonderful. “I Wrote” was written by a seventeen-year-old poet. Jeez. Way to make the rest of us look unaccomplished! Alice Bogen’s poetry reflects a certain wisdom she has learned so far. Her writing also reflects a deep maturity and understand of her experience in the world. Her poetry is a large mix of different emotions, tales, and times in her life.

Her poems can be a bit sad or startling, but they have a genuine hope to them, which I find refreshing. There are many beautiful metaphors to nature, but they come across very realistic. Often, we find metaphors that just have sprinkles of random things thrown in. People are turtles, in the slow movements they make. He was the ocean after a storm. It can be a bit like Mad Libs, sometimes. However, Alice’s metaphors, similes, and other comparisons are very simplistic and believable.

To continue, an interesting technique that Bogen has implemented into her book is using general abstract themes or emotions like bravery, fame, happiness, youth, beauty and more. She creates original poems that are more than just their titles with a spin.

I enjoyed a multitude of poems in this book. They are:

 “I Wrote”                              “Happiness”                          “They”           
“Last May”                           “Youth”                                  “Beauty”
“Bravery”                              “Last Huge Breath”            “Life Shall Be Lived”
“Sacrifice”                             “Seen”                                    “The World is Not Enough”
“To Her”                                “Wings”                                 “To Leo”
“Acceptance”                        “Ears Don’t Lie”                  “Lion”
“Brother”                               “To M 2”                                “Goodbye”
“Consequences”                   “Sinners”                               “The Devil”

Courtesy of Olympia Publishing, I received a complimentary copy of this book for reading and reviewing purposes.

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