Because: A Lyric Memoir [Hardcover]

[This book tore me apart: it is riveting, beautiful, and quietly devastating. Mensch is a gifted and unflinching poet, and?he?has one hell of a story to tell.Unrelentingly obsessive&an achievement of sustained attention and imagination.[A] disturbing, memorably and superbly handled book-length narrative poem&[Mensch] has an ear, hes thoughtful, hes subtle where subtle makes sense.This deeply personal and profound poem may be the work of memory but its force is built from within our momenta force enhanced through a structure of anaphora and a percussive length of line that insists on being heard.A gripping verse memoir that offersa compassionate and wrenchingaccount of the authors experienceof childhood sexual abuse.