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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
it’s hard for me to capture my thoughts on this book, it was overwhelming for me to read hence why i read it so slowly. i related to a lot of what was written and it was both the best feeling to feel understood and the worst to have to face those feelings. it was a very personal collection of poems but many were also quite relatable. i felt like the author was able to capture many emotions and situations accurately + insight into what mental illness can be like for some, including myself. it was honestly like reflecting on some of my own demons and struggles so it was just a lot to process right now <33
it’s hard for me to capture my thoughts on this book, it was overwhelming for me to read hence why i read it so slowly. i related to a lot of what was written and it was both the best feeling to feel understood and the worst to have to face those feelings. it was a very personal collection of poems but many were also quite relatable. i felt like the author was able to capture many emotions and situations accurately + insight into what mental illness can be like for some, including myself. it was honestly like reflecting on some of my own demons and struggles so it was just a lot to process right now <33
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
I absolutely love her! When I heard about her book I preordered it immediately. After reading, I must say that I related to most of these. The daily struggles, the love, the loss and the family issues all made me feel like she was speaking about me directly. The poems that I've seen her perform (only through videos unfortunately) I was able to read and sense the way she performs them. The others, I could still hear her voice in my mind but it was harder to relate. Though the book was great and I enjoyed all of the poems, I much rather prefer her performing these poems instead of just reading about them. That being said, if she writes any more books I'm pretty sure I'll still buy them.
I still have tears in my eyes and my heart feels lighter. I will write a proper review tomorrow.
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Tomorrow has arrived and I'm still looking for words to describe this book and how it made me feel. I have read many different poetry books this year and this one is by far one of my favorites. I knew Sabrina because of her slam poem explaining my depression to my mother. I felt captured by it when I first heard/watched it that made me show it to my mom and we cried together. When I found she had published a book and with that title, I knew I had to read it. So thank you to Button Poetry and NetGalley for providing me a digital copy in exchange of a review. Now I can't wait to buy a physical one.
I have a long term relationship with depression and anxiety. It has its ups and downs. Sometimes we get along really well, and sometimes we fight for dominance. Luckily, I have won those battles, not without being really injured in the process. This collection made me think, cry, laugh, and cry again. Tears of sadness, tears of gratitude. Sadness cause life with depression sucks, cause I couldn't feel more identified with poems as the loneliest sweet potato or the slow now. Because through Sabrina's poems I found myself less alone, and sometimes that's all I need. Gratitude cause I'm alive, I have won so far and I'm alive and I can feel, I can be moved with words and I was here at this moment and I was able to read this book and for a while nothing else mattered.
"i have been here before. i mean i recognize that moon. i know, there are many moons, and my gratitude eclipses them all. so, i say thank you. thank you when i mean hello."
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Tomorrow has arrived and I'm still looking for words to describe this book and how it made me feel. I have read many different poetry books this year and this one is by far one of my favorites. I knew Sabrina because of her slam poem explaining my depression to my mother. I felt captured by it when I first heard/watched it that made me show it to my mom and we cried together. When I found she had published a book and with that title, I knew I had to read it. So thank you to Button Poetry and NetGalley for providing me a digital copy in exchange of a review. Now I can't wait to buy a physical one.
I have a long term relationship with depression and anxiety. It has its ups and downs. Sometimes we get along really well, and sometimes we fight for dominance. Luckily, I have won those battles, not without being really injured in the process. This collection made me think, cry, laugh, and cry again. Tears of sadness, tears of gratitude. Sadness cause life with depression sucks, cause I couldn't feel more identified with poems as the loneliest sweet potato or the slow now. Because through Sabrina's poems I found myself less alone, and sometimes that's all I need. Gratitude cause I'm alive, I have won so far and I'm alive and I can feel, I can be moved with words and I was here at this moment and I was able to read this book and for a while nothing else mattered.
"i have been here before. i mean i recognize that moon. i know, there are many moons, and my gratitude eclipses them all. so, i say thank you. thank you when i mean hello."
“mom,
my depression is a shape shifter;
one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear,
the next, it’s the bear.
those days i play dead until the bear leaves me alone.
i call the bad days
the dark days.”
my depression is a shape shifter;
one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear,
the next, it’s the bear.
those days i play dead until the bear leaves me alone.
i call the bad days
the dark days.”
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
sad
mom,
my depression is a shape shifter;
one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear,
the next, it’s the bear.
those days i play dead until the bear leaves me alone.
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Qué poemario más lindo; pero lo que fue aún más lindo fue la escritura. Creo que es la primera vez que me encuentro con un poemario cuyos versos son orgánicos y no una suerte de oración con enter en la mitad. Plus, los poemas *me decían cosas*. No eran cosas al aire, que si bien me gustan, no siempre... son algo? Pienso en la poesía confesional que está en su auge ahora, en cómo la opacidad terminar por despojar al poema de todo significado. That's not funny, me gusta cuando la poesía me dice algo por afuera de lo críptico.
En fin, lean este poemario porque tiene poemas IMPORTANTÍSIMOS y otros tantos hermosos.
my depression is a shape shifter;
one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear,
the next, it’s the bear.
those days i play dead until the bear leaves me alone.
.
Qué poemario más lindo; pero lo que fue aún más lindo fue la escritura. Creo que es la primera vez que me encuentro con un poemario cuyos versos son orgánicos y no una suerte de oración con enter en la mitad. Plus, los poemas *me decían cosas*. No eran cosas al aire, que si bien me gustan, no siempre... son algo? Pienso en la poesía confesional que está en su auge ahora, en cómo la opacidad terminar por despojar al poema de todo significado. That's not funny, me gusta cuando la poesía me dice algo por afuera de lo críptico.
En fin, lean este poemario porque tiene poemas IMPORTANTÍSIMOS y otros tantos hermosos.
I'm not an expert in poetry , and i don't reach for that genre often , but i must say i liked this one .
The writing style was so sweet , some parts i even had to read them out loud to taste them better and enjoy them ..
I'm ready for another poetry book now :D !
The writing style was so sweet , some parts i even had to read them out loud to taste them better and enjoy them ..
I'm ready for another poetry book now :D !