Date: June 15, 2020
Title: Woolgatherer
Author: QuillAtDusk
Genre: Inspirational Poetry
Rating: G/PG
Reading time: one to two hours (about five minutes per poem)
Review:
This story moves me. It reaches inside my chest, grabs my heart, and defibrillates it to get it back into sinus rhythm.
Woolgatherer tells the heart-warming and heartrending story of a teenager suffering from a chronic illness called post-concussion syndrome. As it chronicles the major changes in the speaker's life from the accident to the present day, we see how the speaker struggles, loses faith, and regains her hope.
One of the things I absolutely love about this author's work is the search for faith. Believing in oneself. It doesn't matter whether you believe in God or not. Faith is faith. Interpret it as you will. While the speaker isn't shy about showing the darker aspects of life, a glimmer of faith always remains. No matter how dismal things feel.
That spark blossoms into a warm, gentle fire that touches my soul. Using literary devices with masterful ease, the speaker shows us powerful emotions. Sometimes with one-liners that pack a serious punch.
Another amazing aspect of the author's poems is the relatability. I haven't suffered from PCS. No one I know has either. But the speaker pulls us in with feelings that are so relatable that we can understand. Or at least empathize/sympathize with her current situation.
Despite that fact, this story is clearly an "own voices" narrative. The speaker draws us in precisely because the author has experienced this illness. She knows what it means to struggle not only with the physical aspects but the psychological ones too.
This collection of poems has the feel of a narrative poem, one that chronicles a heroine's journey from ordinary life to a tragic accident that leads her from darkness to light. It's inspired by real events, and it shows. Yet it never gets tedious because we feel what she feels and see what she sees. For a moment, we can know what it's like.
And that's the brilliance of own voices narratives. The author has inspired me to see the beauty of life and appreciate it to its fullest even in the darkest of times. Thank you for sharing.
Rating: 5 stars
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