"Gnarly" is not what you expect: a collection of love poems, this is not an assemblage of sappy sonnets or couplets. Smith catches the reader off-guard with her close attention to sound, metaphor, and form as she explores the chambers of a bruised heart. Pumping out vivid imagery, there is music in these poems that should make you read each word carefully and out loud, relishing in Smith's clever twists of language. A compendium of catharsis, 'Gnarly' will make you realize just how far you can fall in love with heartache.