The book people quote back to each other. What Can I Say? is Shaun J Apple's most quotable collection. The poems are wry, confessional, and built to say the thing out loud that most of us only think and swallow. They move from a shrug into a gut-punch, from a joke into a confession, often in the same breath. Nothing is over-explained. The poems trust you to feel the drop without being warned it is coming. These are poems people learn by accident, the ones that turn up in a caption or a toast because they said the thing first and better. For readers of modern and confessional poetry who want writing that lands.