Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Unscrambled Eggs
Author: Nadia Brown
Publisher: Publish America
ISBN: 1-4137-8169-1
Release Date: 2005
Genre/Sub-genre: Poetry
Year/Setting: N/A
Overall rating: 4.0
Sexual content rating: None
Nadia's Website:
www.nadiabrown.com
Nadia Brown has compiled a grouping of poems I believe depict events, which have shaped her life. They range in topics from past errors to slavery to dreams and hopes. It has been said poetry is meant to cause the reader to think – both about the poem and about their lives and the people around them. Nadia has certainly accomplished this feat. It is hard for me to put a rating on this book because it doesn’t fit the parameters of most books not to mention being hard to put down on paper thoughts about the book itself.
For example:
In Refusal are words capturing the cries of a woman’s heart in mourning. The poem is quite poignant but it just ends leaving the reader to wonder.
In Sea of Poor are words depicting the wealth in a country but lying underneath is still the poverty. Very well worded and could be deemed a call to action.
In Blue Night are words laying bare the heart of a woman who is missing someone quite dear. You can feel her ache through the words written.
In Loss Civility, Nadia points out the rampant corruption but leaves it feeling unfinished.
In Before, Nadia talks of a love known "before" the actuality of the physical person. A love which goes beyond all mortal understanding. I found it to be lilting and deeply touching.
And then there is Unscrambled Eggs, for which the book is titled. A poem we can all certainly relate to and place in our own lives to illustrate the times we stop and reminisce.
It was intriguing to stop and take the time to read a book like this. Sometimes I think we get stuck in certain areas of reading when there is an entire world of reading out there. While poetry may or may not be your thing, I encourage you to step outside your comfort zone and read something different - something new. One nice thing about poetry, and I can suggest a book like Unscrambled Eggs for this purpose, is you can read just one poem at a time, stop there and think about what you read. You may find one favorite you read over and over again – never to read the others more than once. Or you may find you read more.
For Unscrambled Eggs in particular, I found some of her poems to be an absolute 5 in rating. They made me stop and think but more importantly, they made me stop and feel. Some of them, however, left me hanging and unsure and some left me a bit confused. Those I would have to rate a 3. However, just maybe that is exactly what poetry is supposed to do.
Lori
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