I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me

I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me is the poignant and bittersweet account of a little girls memories of growing up as an only child with alcoholic parents. The reader will often hear the childs voice in the moments she shares: her fears her confusion and those moments that remind her and the reader how glorious it can be to just be a child.Karyn M Bruce writes with emotional veracity and her words are intimate simple and yet intense. Each poem brings to light the narrators small challenging and often scary world growing up in the 1940s and 50s when family secrets were kept and even if the neighbors heard or saw problems they were not going to be involved. The author tells the story of her loneliness her heartbreak and her painful realization that there was no one to help her.I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me is a book of sorrow and joy; a book of struggle and accomplishment; and it is a book of life and death where the author grinds big ideas into little things. Karyn M. Bruces poetry gives a voice to the darkness a voice to a silence and if give the voice of hope to many voices yet unheard.I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me was reviewed by the IndieReader and given 4.7 stars out of 5. The editors of The New York Review of Books invited Ms. Bruce to place her book ad in the August 2020 and the December 2020 issues.