Reviews

Shy: An Anthology by Don Mckay, Elaine Woo, Lorna Crozier, Carol L. MacKay, Stuart Ian McKay, Ben Gelinas, Shawna Lemay, Jennifer Houle, Kerry Ryan, Rona Altrows, Aritha Van Herk, Russell Wangersky, Steven Heighton, Weyman Chan, Micheline Maylor, Alex Boyd, I.B. Iskov, David Van Buren, Naomi K. Lewis, Sydney Sharpe, Wade Bell, Natalie J. Simpson

kerumie's review

3.0

Sometimes a voice--have you heard this?--
wants not to be a voice any longer and this longing
is the worst of longings.

i was searching for another book when i stumbled across this one. the title staring up at me in huge capital letters as though recognizing one of its own. it felt wrong to look away, so i took it with me, started reading it even before i'd gotten home. fast forward twenty minutes and i'm crying on the bus. i don't know what to say other than i, too, have been trying to learn how to breathe around others. only recently i was watching home videos of myself as a kid, my mother saying how long it took for me to begin speaking, how my father was worried there was something wrong with me, and all i could think was how much it made sense. it makes sense too, then, that i have turned to writing, like so many others before me. thank you for your voices.