Pieces of My Dreams

"I bring to you the tour of what happens/To a lonely kid growing up as a broken man." With "Pieces of My Dreams," Martinique Clemons masterfully pens a life marred by family drug use, past-relationship missteps, growing up at a young age, and living a making-ends-meet lifestyle. Bereft of vie facile quips and allusions to sunnier pastures, the collection of untitled slam and free verse poems show Clemons at his best, crafting ominous pictures with colloquialisms while offering various anecdotes of struggle--struggles endured with family and struggles with himself.