Review: "Disappear" by Chelsie Robb

Disappear by Chelsie Robb
Published July 2023
★★★

I am just a number. / My entire life is numbers. I've never / been good at math. (11)

Not sure how best to describe this, but I guess a chapbook? A mix of poetry and prose or prose poetry. I prefer the prose parts, which will never be a surprise to me, but they're well done here. The later poetry lean a little rhyme-heavy, but overall there's a good sense of variation and growth throughout the short book.

I don't know how to talk about the grave I dug myself into so long ago without inviting you to start digging too. (14)

I'll leave it there—short book, short review?—but this one worked better for me than I expected.