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290 pp.
| Viking
| March, 2019
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Trade
ISBN 978-0-670-01210-7
$17.99
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YA
Anderson's three-part autobiographical collection of dynamic, mostly free-verse poems serves as a potent postlude for
Speak. The first third takes us from Anderson's difficult childhood to
Speak's publication. Next is a series of impassioned poems about sexual assault, censorship, consent, etc. She concludes with a quiet set of reflective family poems. By turns angry, commanding, raw, and wistful, this is a praise song to survivors and a blistering rebuke to predators. Reading list.