I liked this book so much I am really happy I have her other book [b:The Girls of Peculiar|13509966|The Girls of Peculiar|Catherine Pierce|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1330816020s/13509966.jpg|19063015] to read.

I really liked her style, it was straightforward but still interesting and gorgeous.

The book was split into sections including love poems written to things like "sinister moments," America, and longing, poems written in the style of movie types, and poems written to famous last words. I don't think all these styles fit together, but I have no problem at all with a book that is made of pieces. It is nice because it is almost as if I get 3 or 4 little books in this collection.

I liked the titles in the book, the sections all had their own naming rules. The book included orderly line and stanza breaks and also a few poems that were disorderly in their breaks.

My favorite poems in the book:

Love Poem to Sinister Moments

In Which I Imagine Myself into a Film Noir

In Which I Imagine Myself into a Slasher Flick

Apostrophe to the First Gray Hair (bottom poem)

You can find my review at Gently Read Literature: http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/.

In this collection, Pierce defines what it means to want more, to fight against the inevitability of the end that takes us all. She writes, "I am the girl in your dreams. / I wear a cocktail dress and dirt / in my teeth." The lyrical I is here, and it won't let you go.

"You understand
the need for the right words. How else
can we live forever? how else
can we write ourselves in?"