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maida's review
3.0
“you broke the ocean in
half to be here.
only to meet nothing that wants you.
–– immigrant”
this is the only modern poetry book i can actually recommend. i’m not as hopeless anymore.
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
half to be here.
only to meet nothing that wants you.
–– immigrant”
this is the only modern poetry book i can actually recommend. i’m not as hopeless anymore.
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
kamohelom___'s review
3.0
Although I do not quite agree with the structure- this is poetry.
I know it because of how I feel.
I know it because of how I feel.
africanbookaddict's review against another edition
5.0
I don't care for poetry. BUT this book is a collection of words that heal. Super fast read, but the poems just make you sit and think. This is def one of my top 5 reads of the year thus far. I will buy the paperback, just for keep-sake soon, it's worth it! I think its still free on Amazon - for Kindle users. I just wish the author was more open about her specific background and showed her face somewhere on the internet hahaa :)
intorilex's review
5.0
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I thoroughly enjoyed these wonderful poems. Similar to milk and honey by Rupi Kaur's minimalist style, the poems were short but multilayered and memorable. The voice and thought brought to the form was unique and thought provoking. The topics covered ranged from race, immigration, growth and womanhood. Each poem taught me to reflect and approach seemingly familiar topics critically, breaking them down into tangible bites that were worth more then the sum of there parts.
I recommend this to everyone who appreciates poetry, and relishes the art of well put together prose. I read through this in one sitting and was blown away by Nayyirah's ability to bring the truth and pain of existing as a women to the page. This is a wonderful primer on the ways that black women exist and survive in a society that usually thinks for them and of them last. The cover is pure white, and so the book quickly got marked up by being around my bag and flipped through on my dresser. But I liked that the book made room to be marked by the world around it, just like we all are.
I thoroughly enjoyed these wonderful poems. Similar to milk and honey by Rupi Kaur's minimalist style, the poems were short but multilayered and memorable. The voice and thought brought to the form was unique and thought provoking. The topics covered ranged from race, immigration, growth and womanhood. Each poem taught me to reflect and approach seemingly familiar topics critically, breaking them down into tangible bites that were worth more then the sum of there parts.
I recommend this to everyone who appreciates poetry, and relishes the art of well put together prose. I read through this in one sitting and was blown away by Nayyirah's ability to bring the truth and pain of existing as a women to the page. This is a wonderful primer on the ways that black women exist and survive in a society that usually thinks for them and of them last. The cover is pure white, and so the book quickly got marked up by being around my bag and flipped through on my dresser. But I liked that the book made room to be marked by the world around it, just like we all are.
ellejaoy's review against another edition
5.0
Amazing. Genuinely cannot get enough of this author. She has the most wonderful way of writing and I am constantly blown away by their creativity.
bluelishi's review
2.0
if i
wanted
tumblr poetry
i
would
submerge myself
within the
depths
of
edgy
teens
-extra star for content
robinsversion's review against another edition
2.0
While this is more coherent and comprehensible than “stream black books” (well, for the most part) and contains some powerful and beautiful poems about race and racism, the author still, well, to put it nicely, has a way to go in terms of properly expressing her ideas and viewpoints on the world. In one poem she insists her “english” is “broken on purpose” to make the reader have to put in the work to read and properly understand her, but it honestly just reads as more of an excuse for her flimsy and failing attempts at creating a “concept” piece. She needs to focus way less on creating new (or in her words “pre”) forms of “art” and much more on being able to handle even the basics. Even at the best of times, her poems just felt massively incomplete.