Book Review | I Wrote This For You
Title: I Wrote This for You. Author: Samira Haruna Sanusi. Page Count: 94. Publisher: Word, Rhyme and Rhythm, Abuja. Due for release on: August 19, 2017. Reviewer: Nana Sule I wrote this for you starts as little droplets of beautifully woven words before gradually building to a rain of encouragement. Every now and then, alternating between the first person narrative and the second person, one sees pain through the eyes of the writer, and feels the torture of all that she has been through. Written as a collection of poems and quotes, the first and most noticeable strength is the clever wordplay that survived till the last page. The poems, seem unknowingly divided into four parts, although it is unclear if this was the Writers’ original intention or if by some literary miracle, the poems aligned in poetry heaven. The first set of poems talked about the acceptance of pain, in all its ramifications, emphasizing the need to let pain break and heal one.