Arranging Words

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Arranging Words</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is Abrams' second chapbook collection. Like her first chapbook </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> this book is a series of light-hearted poems that asks the reader to look at the world from a new perspective. These poems approach letters words and everyday phrases in a way that pokes fun at the eccentricities of the English language. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p>For example her poem titled K Knows How to Hide and Seek begins with the line K knocks twice but we only hear him once reminds us how often k is a silent letter. The poem Poetry Exercise plays on the meaning of the word exercise with the line Brain cells stretch lift your arms reach for words. Phrases are deconstructed into literal meanings such as in the poem Beside Myself that asks Am I myself or the one beside myself?</p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p>This collection illuminates the quirks of the English language in a lively humorous way while demonstrating <span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>a love for words themselves.</span></p>