Kim Addonizio’s book, “Tell Me,” is a collection of poetry that depicts various different relationships and people in her life. It is mainly comprised of poems about doomed relationships and relationships that already cease to exist. In the poems, she frequently writes about memories of her past relationships. She also writes about feeling depressed and isolated. The collection of poems are extremely straightforward and clear. Many of them are also relatable and intensely personal. Her writing style is confessionalism, also known as poetry of the “I.” Addonizio captures her experiences with love, death, sex, and depression exquisitely in her anthology. Her poems evoke feelings out of her readers by wording her poems in a way that reminds her
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She explains how she was woken up by a herd of wild horses as they galloped to the river bank. She then describes the next morning, saying “I watched you at the edge of the river, washing your face, your bare chest beaded with bright water, and knew how much we needed this, the day ahead with its calm lake we would swim in, naked, able to touch again. You were so beautiful.” The song “You Are The Best Thing” by Ray LaMontagne portrays just how much he loves his significant other. This can be seen in the lyrics “And baby, the way you move me is crazy… Oh, because you are the best thing.” These lyrics carry over to how the narrator loves her husband. She and her husband have taken this trip for themselves to spend time with each other and focus on just the two of them. However, the last line of the poem is “And I thought the marriage might never end.” The song “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” is also fitting for this poem. By her stating that she thought the marriage might never end, she is insinuating that she is aware of her dwindling love and knows that it will end eventually. She is in a doomed relationship despite the romantic weekend they have had together that may blur the reality of their relationship. The lyrics “We’re goin’ down, and you can see it too… my dear, we’re slow dancing in a burning room” states how both humans involved in a relationship can see their relationship slowly coming to an end in the
She explains how she was woken up by a herd of wild horses as they galloped to the river bank. She then describes the next morning, saying “I watched you at the edge of the river, washing your face, your bare chest beaded with bright water, and knew how much we needed this, the day ahead with its calm lake we would swim in, naked, able to touch again. You were so beautiful.” The song “You Are The Best Thing” by Ray LaMontagne portrays just how much he loves his significant other. This can be seen in the lyrics “And baby, the way you move me is crazy… Oh, because you are the best thing.” These lyrics carry over to how the narrator loves her husband. She and her husband have taken this trip for themselves to spend time with each other and focus on just the two of them. However, the last line of the poem is “And I thought the marriage might never end.” The song “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” is also fitting for this poem. By her stating that she thought the marriage might never end, she is insinuating that she is aware of her dwindling love and knows that it will end eventually. She is in a doomed relationship despite the romantic weekend they have had together that may blur the reality of their relationship. The lyrics “We’re goin’ down, and you can see it too… my dear, we’re slow dancing in a burning room” states how both humans involved in a relationship can see their relationship slowly coming to an end in the