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Bloom for Yourself by April Green
3.0

I picked this up because I discovered that a quote I’ve loved for years came from this book:

Wild woman —

do not be afraid
to dance alone.

(the earth has been waiting for you)

That’s still my favorite page of this book.

I was a little nervous going into this because it was written in 2017, which was still the tumblr poetry era. I expected it to be more of the same poetry I’ve read a lot of. Some of it was repetitive but there were definitely some impactful ones. I tabbed 24 out of 162 poems, I feel like that deserves a 3 star. I love the nature imagery and self love theme but it didn’t do anything ground breaking. A solid self love poetry book.