I READ A BOOK: I Love My Love by Reyna Biddy

Well, Valentines Day is right around the corner so if you're going through a break-up or angry-single (like me), then boy do I have some poetry for you.

I LOVE MY LOVE by Reyna Biddy

People who like this book will relate to it on a "spiritual level". Reyna definitely writes from her heart over the head. But these poems are not the ramblings of someone drowning in love; they're about Reyna and about being hurt (so perhaps it's not a gift to someone you're currently dating). They're about someone learning how to love themselves and learning other people do not have the interests of your heart at the top of their to-do list. She says it herself: "the girl who writes poems about loving too hard - and not being loved hard enough."

This book will not be everyone's cup of tea. If you're into traditional poetry, this is not traditional poetry. I think the poems were a little all over the place and don't flow together as a collection. Writing a whole book about love can be a little melodramatic. I saw signs of codependency and other mindsets that will set most people up for future disappointment. I suspect this book is geared towards a specific age range - teens to twenties.

But if you get this book, I want to know who crosses your mind while you read it!

I would recommend this book to people who are new to poetry, people who like pleasefindthis, or people who just want to get themselves their own Valentines day present. (Why not, you deserve it).
If you're going through a hard break-up, this book will *get you*.

At the end of the day, I'd file this under Tumblr poetry (as I do pleasefindthis). Before you scoff and run away though, Tumblr poetry is emotional, excitable, accessible, (and all lower-case). But I enjoy these collections - because they are emotional and excitable, because they are accessible.

And because they are lower-case. Lower-case are all the same height, not one more important than the other. Unified. Worldly. I get it, man. I'm hip with the new world order.

Check Reyna Biddy out on Twitter: DearYouFromWe