“I was walking down the street in New York City and just lines of poetry started to drop into my head.” Laurie Halse Anderson speaks about her memoir in verse – Shout. ” I was thinking about the thousands and thousands of ( survivors of sexual abuse) who have shared their stories with me…. and this book just unfolded and unfolded… I knew it needed to be told in verse not narrative. So I took a deep breath and I took the plunge.”