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A review by danibee33
Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes
5.0
Barbara Jane Reyes is SUCH A BADASS. This book of poetry has become very dear to my heart throughout the month I took to read and reread her words. She moved me, spoke to me, and broke me with her poems. To all the brown girls out there, especially my Filipinx kin, please read and cherish this.
Where was this poetry when I was young?
This is for sure one of my favorite books of poetry I've ever read... If not my number one favorite. Thank you B.J.R., from my heart.
"There is always a brown girl who knows exactly how and when to open up the walls and disappear. We know this is easy as breathing on a cool day. We know how to pluck music from the air, and how to pluck away grays. We know how to call for ocean to rise, cold salt and tide, how to bury, and how to build fire. We know are that ocean. We know how to strip away sound, pulse, and subside. From barely a sigh, we can hold a pure note high. We know that to be a brown girl is to call the ocean is call to the self is to know you have to find a way."
Where was this poetry when I was young?
This is for sure one of my favorite books of poetry I've ever read... If not my number one favorite. Thank you B.J.R., from my heart.
"There is always a brown girl who knows exactly how and when to open up the walls and disappear. We know this is easy as breathing on a cool day. We know how to pluck music from the air, and how to pluck away grays. We know how to call for ocean to rise, cold salt and tide, how to bury, and how to build fire. We know are that ocean. We know how to strip away sound, pulse, and subside. From barely a sigh, we can hold a pure note high. We know that to be a brown girl is to call the ocean is call to the self is to know you have to find a way."