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I find Rivera’s poems in Troubling Accents captivating. Each poem, as Rivera revealed at the reading, tells a personal story with deep emotion driving the theme or plot of the poem. I thoroughly enjoyed reading her book, however the poems that stood out to me the most were “Waking” and “Like Women of Long Ago.” The poem “Waking” caught my attention with specific lines, particularly, “Chivalry is/experiencing a renaissance!” Rivera’s wording brings the purity of nature to life, allowing the reader connect with the speaker, despite the personal content of the poem. My other favorite out of her poems was, “Like Women of Long Ago.” The poem has a pattern of flowing lines of Rivera’s detailed descriptions, and then abruptly stopping the flow with dialogue, specifically seen in the third stanza. The connection Rivera makes between slavery with the lines such as, “a throat can be cut by a thick cord/of field cane,” and the death of Ann’s aunt, Dot. The last three lines of the poem, which ends with “those with nothing left to lose wage the fiercest fight,” were especially riveting. Rivera closes the poem with intensity similar to the opening while adding an undertone of hope and strength as Baby Ann and her mother go through the stages of mourning.