

It’s clear that you’ll encounter poetry, and it tells you the plot and ending. Some of her poems set words or phrases to a certain margin, which can be read together to show another message.Īs a final note, the marketing of the cover is perfect. Reading this book showed me a different way of looking at contemporary poetry. One that I love focuses on what you are going to do with an English major. There is little in the way of setting, but Lovelace wrote strong images on every page.

Other aspects of her character come out in some of the images.

We see her become a victim and grow into a survivor. The character development for the speaker is great. I found so many individual one-page poems that I loved, and they can be interpreted in several different ways. It took an unexpectedly dark turn with childhood abuse, but it worked. I expected this to be entirely fantasy, but it wasn’t. I saw this book at the library on display with a fairy-tale-and-lore theme for April, and I felt in the mood to read poetry. The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace poetically narrates a life of survival then triumph. Told in four parts (the princess, the damsel, the queen, you), the author shares her life story in the first three parts and a message for the reader in the last. This memoir/novel-in-verse tells the tale of a princess who saves herself.
