If you want to write for an audience, you have to care about their stake in the work. I told them the same thing I would tell Shelby Eileen: just because you write, that doesn’t mean it’s for an audience. When I taught creative writing, my students were not forbidden from writing about love and break ups, but they had to do so in a way that paid attention to the needs and expectations of a reader of poetry. Most poems begin with “I” but quickly pivot to “you.” More than anything, Eileen’s poems read like a young adult’s diary that needed some hard feedback from peers. Eileen gets lost in her own works, and instead readers come away knowing more about. The really aggravating part of twenty-something break-up poetry is how much weight is given to. There is no attention to consonance, assonance, alliteration, and little paid to metaphor or imagery - all things that make poetry pleasing to hear and read. While I get the sentiment, it’s tedious to read 157 pages of the same thing written in a juvenile fashion.
If you enjoy the following poem, you’ll love this collection: I can't look at beautiful things Thus, the target audience appears to be girls ages 14-22.
She asks those familiar questions: Am I anything without ? Will I ever get over ? Is it ever going to stop hurting? My whole entire world was. Eileen writes from those deep feelings after break ups that plague all twenty-somethings, myself included when I was that age. Overall, this poetry collection is not for me.
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