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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
reflective
I haven't read such beautiful poetry in a long time.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
informative
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Poetry is not my genre, but I enjoyed this. I learned a lot about the author from her poems.
For example, she got in trouble in school a lot, when she went to her fourth grade class in bright red cowboy boots with tassels and asked to be excused from her homework. Later, when her and her siblings were labeled "spics" on the playground, her parents tried to make them feel better by saying that they were being asked to "speak up". Her mother used to threaten her and her sisters that they were going to send her to Bellevue through their misbehavior.
"I wanted stockings, makeup, store-bought clothes; I wanted to look like an American girl; to speak my English so you couldn't tell I'd come from somewhere else."
"Yet as I write in English I murmur the words in Spanish to be sure I'm writing down the truth of what I feel."
"...the next day for English class I was assigned to Miss Ruth Stevenson who closed the classroom door and said, 'Ladies, let's have ourselves a hell of a good time!'
And we did, reading Austen, Dickinson, Eliott, Woolf, until we understood we'd come to train - not tame - the wild girls into the women who would run the world."
For example, she got in trouble in school a lot, when she went to her fourth grade class in bright red cowboy boots with tassels and asked to be excused from her homework. Later, when her and her siblings were labeled "spics" on the playground, her parents tried to make them feel better by saying that they were being asked to "speak up". Her mother used to threaten her and her sisters that they were going to send her to Bellevue through their misbehavior.
"I wanted stockings, makeup, store-bought clothes; I wanted to look like an American girl; to speak my English so you couldn't tell I'd come from somewhere else."
"Yet as I write in English I murmur the words in Spanish to be sure I'm writing down the truth of what I feel."
"...the next day for English class I was assigned to Miss Ruth Stevenson who closed the classroom door and said, 'Ladies, let's have ourselves a hell of a good time!'
And we did, reading Austen, Dickinson, Eliott, Woolf, until we understood we'd come to train - not tame - the wild girls into the women who would run the world."
Fave poems:
Abbot Academy
Vain Doubts
Manholes
My Kind of Woman
Ars Politica
Signs
What We Ask For
Abbot Academy
Vain Doubts
Manholes
My Kind of Woman
Ars Politica
Signs
What We Ask For
Exceptional. Got my own copy and I will own it forever. She speaks so cleanly, so eloquently about life and death and hope and womanhood. Even if you don't like poetry, read this. If you are a woman, I promise it will touch you.
As is often true in a collection of poetry, not so of this held my attention equally, but the high points were excellent.