Finding a Word to Describe You reads like an autopsy of a love story. The speaker leaps to love and finds lover's thorny depths which leads to bewilderment, agony and merciless self-reflection. The poems cradle the reader inside scenes and flashbacks, zoom in on pivotal moments. No emotion is shied away from or swept under the rug. What privilege has the author given us to inhabit highs and lows, deprivation and ecstasy, biting and purring, hope and despair. Gripping in its passion and instructive in its craft, Manny Grimaldi's new poetry collection delights and excites with its high emotional stakes of wrestling / inside of two quatrains, / two tercets and a knife. Katerina Stoykova, author of Between a Bird Cage and a Bird House