“Trish Hopkinson’s fourth chapbook brims with evocative imagery. ‘My memories have taste buds…Every moment has a different palate and lingers on my teeth,’ Hopkinson writes. Her poignant and personal poems draw the reader into a vividly rendered childhood. Set in a sometimes nomadic home-life where doors are ‘thin enough for a fist’ and ‘the kitchen wears its linoleum like a polyester suit,’ uncertainty, danger, and death seem constantly close at hand. These emotionally rich poems reveal the life of a young woman coming into her own, from an unsettling birth to traumatic teen years. In Almost Famous, Hopkinson gifts us with poem after poem that boldly speaks its truth.”
—Nancy Chen Long, Author of Light into Bodies
Almost Famous
