With Little Words, Sabatina deepens lyrical narratives

Little Words: The title is modest with a poignant juxtaposition between reality and fantasy. This book possesses a coherent simplicity that could pass for common sense. The simplicity of approach is wrapped in the mystery of words — a peculiar manner of phrasing ideas that evoke thoughts on humanity with a stirring speech.

The tone of the book strikes more as an insight into the poet’s life with clusters of significant images — a measured psychological movement steeped in empathy. Amife Sabatina’s reputation as a writer who uses lyrical style to craft narratives is never in doubt. The use of ‘Neutral Tones’ with entertaining subtlety peculiar to the demeanor of her generation is very impressive.

Sabatina appears admirably direct in her perception that words and experiences are not two separable phenomena; rather — they are “puffs of winds blowing passionately upon men’s impulses.”

Rhythmically speaking, we perceive a throttled reflection—the conscious discovery of words as a passionate passage to a mysterious future — that which evokes thoughts as wild as fireworks — “a quick opening for a quick life.”