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 girl's memories of growing up as an only child with alcoholic parents. The reader will often hear the child's 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 narrator's ...