Lynne Schmidt | Review of Skeleton Parade by Mela Blust

Lynne Schmidt is the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, and mental health professional with a focus in trauma and healing. She is the author of the chapbooks, Gravity (Nightingale and Sparrow Press) which was listed as one of the 17 Best Breakup Books to Read in 2020, and On Becoming a Role Model (Thirty West), which was featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed for PTSD Awareness Week. Her work has received the Maine Nonfiction Award, Editor’s Choice Award, and was a 2018 and 2019 PNWA finalist for memoir and poetry respectively. Lynne was a five time 2019 Best of the Net Nominee, and an honorable mention for the Charles Bukowski and Doug Draime Poetry Awards. In 2012 she started the project, AbortionChat, which aims to lessen the stigma around abortion. When given the choice, Lynne prefers the company of her three dogs and one cat to humans.

A Folio of Chapbook Micro-Reviews
October 28, 2020
Edited by Stephanie Kaylor

Lynne Schmidt

Review of Skeleton Parade by Mela Blust

Skeleton Parade By Mela Blust APEP Publcations, 2019 Skeleton Parade (APEP Publcations, 2019) allows a survivor's bones to dance outside of the body. Digging into themes of trauma, abuse, and the weight that haunts throughout a survivor's life, Mela Blust does a brilliant job of delivering hard poetry. Blust takes the reader's hand and digs into the earth to expose all the decay, the harm, the secrets, and the rage that burns for so long after we've been harmed. I would recommend this collection for anyone who has been hurt, anyone who still feels angry, and anyone who still feels the fire raging inside them. Visit Mela Blust's Website Visit APEP Publcations' Website

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