The Kind of Noise Worth Writing Down

Grounded in sound and experience, LeDue’s work is an exploration of family, childhood, grief and living. Reflections intertwined with memory, such as in pieces like ‘The Uncle I Never Met’, are poignant and moving as LeDue reminds us of the fragility life hinges upon-the chances we take or miss. The recollections of family life, dynamics and growing up are also wonderfully relatable. But, for me, LeDue’s greatest work lies in his ability to write about expression, with the image of summer rain being the applause we need to hear imprinting itself forever in my conscience.

-Kristiana Reed, Editor of Free Verse Revolution: literary magazine

In The Kind of Noise Worth Writing Down,
LeDue offers us masterful, haunting, and nostalgic reflections on life.

-Jessica Purgett, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, The Mark Literary Review

A Kind of Noise Worth Writing Down gathers LeDue’s poems into an austere and meditative temple. Imbued with the silence of white space and exact spare language, these poems traverse time, spanning childhood poverty to adult relationships, caretaking, isolation, and the everyday events that comprise a human. Within their temperance swell bits of anger, frustration, forgiveness, and solitude-masterfully conveyed through precise, diminutive passages. LeDue’s poems elevate what’s ordinary into something much greater-A Kind of Noise Worth Writing Down. The power of these quiet, meditative windows will leave you spellbound-and likely reading again and again.

-Koss, poet