Vanilla Milk: A Memoir Told in Poems by Chanel Brenner

KIRKUS experiences: "Through poems and vignettes, Brenner’s relocating debut memoir commemorates her son’s dying. Brenner started writing poetry in earnest the evening 6-year-old Riley died of an arteriovenous malformation mind hemorrhage...These loose verse decisions, as a rule written in entire sentences, depend upon alliteration, assonance and outstanding imagery instead of directly rhyming for influence. viewpoint morphs subtly, beginning within the 3rd individual and getting into a extra intimate first-person current, with occasional outbursts of second-person handle to Riley...A noteworthy exploration of a parent's grief."

“The poems within this publication have been torn from the center of a lady whose pain is so colossal that it may possibly swallow her complete. rather than letting the outstanding soreness devour her, Chanel Brenner crafted those undeniably stunning meditations at the demise of her son. I learn Vanilla Milk 4 instances ahead of placing it down, simply because i used to be afraid to enable it cross. Chanel Brenner has crafted a resplendent murals that's unmatched in its skill to make experience of the ebbs and flows of grief.” MATTHEW LOGELIN, long island instances bestselling writer of 2 Kisses for Maddy

“Chanel Brenner’s Vanilla Milk is a transcendent paintings. The ability and braveness of those poems motivate me to be a greater author, the generosity in them conjures up me to be a greater person.” MIA SARA, writer at [PANK]

“Brenner’s booklet joins the ranks of serious elegies or lamentations for the lack of a baby: Ben Jonson’s poem for his son, Jan Kochanowski’s Laments, Stephane Mallarme's unfinished lengthy poem “A contact of Anatole,” and modern works—Stan Rice’s a few Lamb and Edward Hirsch’s Gabriel. Brenner's publication of poems facing the lack of her son Riley stands in addition to those nice classics—art’s try out via poetry to fathom the unfathomable sorrow of soreness. Vanilla Milk breaks the guts, strikes the soul as few books of poetry can—but, like several nice artwork, it heals in addition. you'll by no means see the realm a similar means again.” JACK GRAPES, writer of The bare Eye, process Writing, and Poems up to now up to now So strong up to now to Go

"Vanilla Milk...is a stunning mix of codecs which melds a memoir to poetry...Chanel Brenner isn't the first to take advantage of poems to immortalize and seize the occasions surrounding a kid's demise: Stan Rice's a few Lamb is one instance of an exceptional synthesis of poem/memoir -- and Vanilla Milk merits to take its position along it, at the shelf of outstanding writings." MIDWEST publication REVIEW

Vanilla Milk, a memoir advised in poems, specializes in a mother’s and kin reaction to the unexpected loss of life of the author's six-year-old son. those elegies may be learn as written snapshots forming an elegiac album, depicting how a disturbing loss alters relationships, love, and parenting, and perceptions of hazard, time, and lifestyles. characterised by means of unsparing honesty, readability, and reticence, the poems discover the boundaries inherent in “recovering” from the grief of wasting a baby, and the necessity to proceed experiencing pleasure. features a 20-page album of relatives photographs.