Reviews

A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury by Louise Mathewson

melanie_page's review

5.0

Overall, I enjoyed A Life Interrupted: Living With Brain Injury not only for the poems’ attention to form, diction, and imagery, but because it helped me better see into the life of someone with a disability who came out the other side different — and that’s okay. I started mulling on how I would approach a drastic change in my life, and it wasn’t too hard to imagine. Hasn’t covid disrupted everyone’s lives? And I once read on Twitter that the only people who adapted very poorly to the pandemic were folks who were not used to being told no, who were not asked to adjust pre-pandemic, who expected what they wanted to come without feet dragging. Louise Mathewson’s collection was the right book at the right time.

Check out the full review at Grab the Lapels.