The book people quote back to each other. What Can I Say? is Shaun J Apple's most quotable collection. The poems are wry, confessional, and built to say the thing out loud that most of us only think and swallow. They move from a shrug into a gut-punch, from a joke into a confession, often in the same breath. Nothing is over-explained. The poems trust you to feel the drop without being warned it is coming.
These are poems people learn by accident, the ones that turn up in a caption or a toast because they said the thing first and better. For readers of modern and confessional poetry who want writing that lands.
The book people quote back to each other. What Can I Say? is Shaun J Apple's most quotable collection. The poems are wry, confessional, and built to say the thing out loud that most of us only think and swallow. They move from a shrug into a gut-punch, from a joke into a confession, often in the same breath. Nothing is over-explained. The poems trust you to feel the drop without being warned it is coming.
These are poems people learn by accident, the ones that turn up in a caption or a toast because they said the thing first and better. For readers of modern and confessional poetry who want writing that lands.