Confessions of a Stutterer
Confessions of a Stutterer
Tyson Higel is a nurse, a poet, and most unimportant of all, a person who stutters. His difficulty with speaking is what led him to writing, however—a landscape in which words are no longer obstacles, but bridges. Confessions of a Stutterer aims to be a bridge itself, to connect the reader, the listener, to what goes unspoken for from those who struggle with speaking.
reviews
“A heartbreaking collection about what it means to live a life half spoken. As a fellow stutterer, these poems resonated deeply with me. With unflinching honesty and a writer’s command of the language denied him verbally, Tyson lays bare the reality of living with a stutter: the daily humiliations, battles and frustrations. But, among the sadness, there is hope and acceptance, too. In Tyson’s own words: ‘Go through life in all your beauty.’ We can take away no greater message.”
— Iqbal Hussain, author of Northern Boy
“Tyson Higel’s much anticipated poetry book Confessions of a Stutterer offers insights into the efforts of expression, the necessity for connection, and the significance of reflection. Each line is a confession, life breathed into it, a familiar scene from a foreign planet. It left me wanting to read more from this budding poet; you will too.
It is raw, intimate; at times shocking, and at others, the lines gracefully offer an unexpected perspective you didn’t know you needed. Whatever you might think you know about a subject, Higel offers you a different way to know it. To pull a phrase from Higel’s poem The Hardened Ground of Shame, this collection is ‘utterly honest.’”
