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lbarsk's review against another edition
4.0
"You'd better learn to forgive yourself./ Forgive yourself instantly./ It's a skill you're going to need until you die."
I really appreciated how Daley-Ward was able to tell stories throughout Bone, from longer, more narrative poems to shorter pieces that seem "simple" at first glance but then really pack a punch. This is an excellent collection of poems and Daley-Ward is superbly talented.
I really appreciated how Daley-Ward was able to tell stories throughout Bone, from longer, more narrative poems to shorter pieces that seem "simple" at first glance but then really pack a punch. This is an excellent collection of poems and Daley-Ward is superbly talented.
africanbookaddict's review against another edition
4.0
!!! https://africanbookaddict.com/2016/05/31/poetry-bone-teaching-my-mother-how-to-give-birth-ebooks/
Bone is a brilliant collection of poems. I preferred the long poems- they read like short stories and were packed with suspense and emotion. I loved how the long poems started and how the plot unfolds towards the middle of them. I wasn't really crazy about how some of the poems ended though.
Most of the poems were on death, sex, family, relationships and Christianity. She blends her West Indian (Jamaican) and West African (Nigerian) cultures beautifully in this collection, esp with her references.
There's a good poem called 'mental health' that was pretty encouraging. Some of my fave quotes were: 'Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.' ;
'If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild'.
I really like her writing style- its simple and packed with feeling. I didn't expect the poems to be as healing as fellow poet - Nayyirah Waheed's work, but they definitely hit home and made me realize how difficult and different some peoples' lives are from mine... Eye-opening. Don't sleep on Ysra Daley-Ward.
More on africanbookaddict.com soon!
Bone is a brilliant collection of poems. I preferred the long poems- they read like short stories and were packed with suspense and emotion. I loved how the long poems started and how the plot unfolds towards the middle of them. I wasn't really crazy about how some of the poems ended though.
Most of the poems were on death, sex, family, relationships and Christianity. She blends her West Indian (Jamaican) and West African (Nigerian) cultures beautifully in this collection, esp with her references.
There's a good poem called 'mental health' that was pretty encouraging. Some of my fave quotes were: 'Loving someone who hates themselves is a special kind of violence. A fight inside the bones. A war within the blood.' ;
'If you were married to yourself could you stay with yourself? My house would be frightening and wild'.
I really like her writing style- its simple and packed with feeling. I didn't expect the poems to be as healing as fellow poet - Nayyirah Waheed's work, but they definitely hit home and made me realize how difficult and different some peoples' lives are from mine... Eye-opening. Don't sleep on Ysra Daley-Ward.
More on africanbookaddict.com soon!
laurenkara's review
4.0
this was so powerful and hard hitting.
tw: for homophobia, religion, sexual abuse & rape
tw: for homophobia, religion, sexual abuse & rape
ljutavidra's review against another edition
4.0
Da ne tupim opet, evo samo meni najlepših stihova iz zbirke. Biće vam to sasvim dovoljno da zaključite da li je ovo za vas ili ne.
"Every time I travel
I meet myself a little more."
"There are parts of you
that want the sadness.
Find them out. Ask them why."
"Every time I travel
I meet myself a little more."
"There are parts of you
that want the sadness.
Find them out. Ask them why."
tanemariacris's review against another edition
Nobody is saying anything at the
dinner table tonight,
because everyone is too angry.
The only noise is the clinking of
fine silver on bone china and
the sound of other people’s children
playing outside
but this will give you poetry.
There is no knife in the kitchen sharp
enough to cut the tension
and your grandmother’s hands are
shaking.
The meat and yam stick in your
throat
and you do not dare even to whisper,
please pass the salt
but this will give you poetry.
Your father is breathing out of his
mouth
he is set to beat the spark out of you
tonight
for reasons he isn’t even sure of
himself yet
You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.
The bruising will shatter
The bruising will shatter into
black diamond.
No-one will sit beside you in class.
Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it wont at first
but that
will give you poetry.
As this gut-wrenching collection of poetry proves, you can create impactful stories and pure emotion in just a few words if you are not afraid to travel to the core of reality, as hard and terrifying that journey might be. To the bone where the narrow resides. To the exposed, bare, vulnerable, yet resistant bone.
dinner table tonight,
because everyone is too angry.
The only noise is the clinking of
fine silver on bone china and
the sound of other people’s children
playing outside
but this will give you poetry.
There is no knife in the kitchen sharp
enough to cut the tension
and your grandmother’s hands are
shaking.
The meat and yam stick in your
throat
and you do not dare even to whisper,
please pass the salt
but this will give you poetry.
Your father is breathing out of his
mouth
he is set to beat the spark out of you
tonight
for reasons he isn’t even sure of
himself yet
You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.
The bruising will shatter
The bruising will shatter into
black diamond.
No-one will sit beside you in class.
Maybe your life will work.
Most likely it wont at first
but that
will give you poetry.
As this gut-wrenching collection of poetry proves, you can create impactful stories and pure emotion in just a few words if you are not afraid to travel to the core of reality, as hard and terrifying that journey might be. To the bone where the narrow resides. To the exposed, bare, vulnerable, yet resistant bone.
thelibraryskeeper's review against another edition
5.0
"Seize that loveliness.
It has always been yours."
Just wow. The amount of emotion Yrsa can convey in just a few words throughout this book is absolutely amazing. There is a poem on depression that really hit me right at the core. This is truly an amazing work of poetry.
It has always been yours."
Just wow. The amount of emotion Yrsa can convey in just a few words throughout this book is absolutely amazing. There is a poem on depression that really hit me right at the core. This is truly an amazing work of poetry.