I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me

I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me is the poignant and bittersweet account of a little girl's memories of growing up as an only child with alcoholic parents. The reader will often hear the child's voice in the moments she shares: her fears, her confusion, and those moments that remind her, and the reader, how glorious it can be to "just be a child."
The poems in this book recount the true story of the author, growing up in the late 40s and into the 50s, when child abuse and family problems (physical or mental) were often kept a secret, much the same as the basis of the "Me, Too" movement of our present day. The author tells the story of her loneliness, her heartbreak, and her painful realization that there was no one to help her. She presents her resilience, finding ways to stay sane and alive, trying to make sense of life around her and within her, as well as trying to understand her parents. Nothing here has been fabricated.
Karyn M. Bruce writes with emotional veracity, and her words are intimate, simple, and yet intense. Each poem brings light to the narrator's small, challenging, and often scary world, and how it could go from blithe to bitter within seconds. The reader shares what the narrator finds in moments discovered by herself or her contemplation of herself.
I Will Write Loudly So You Can Hear Me is a book of sorrow and joy; a book of struggle and accomplishment; and, it is a book of life and death, where the author grinds the big ideas into little things. Karyn M. Bruce's poetry gives a voice to a darkness, a voice to a silence, a voice for the many voices, yet unheard, of others. It has taken the author 40 years to find hers.