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two million instragram followers while following zero grabbed my attention. that was after her most recent book being the goodreads choice award winner for poetry had grabbed it too.
the best part of this book are the goodreads reviews. so many perplexed and perturbed one star ratings. envious perhaps. they must be very frustrated with the choice awards win. there is a poem about them in this book.
you may not like it but you have to admire a young woman who exploded out of nowhere. who exquisitel ...more
the best part of this book are the goodreads reviews. so many perplexed and perturbed one star ratings. envious perhaps. they must be very frustrated with the choice awards win. there is a poem about them in this book.
you may not like it but you have to admire a young woman who exploded out of nowhere. who exquisitel ...more
I don't often read poetry, but one of the prompts for the Read Harder challenge is "Read an audiobook of poetry" and I've heard of this one for a long time so I decided to give it a shot.
Milk and Honey is a collection broken into four parts, each with a different theme -- the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. The result is a roller coaster ride of hurt, heartbreak, elation, and strength. Content warning: there is talk of sexual abuse and rape. There is some debate about whether ...more
Milk and Honey is a collection broken into four parts, each with a different theme -- the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing. The result is a roller coaster ride of hurt, heartbreak, elation, and strength. Content warning: there is talk of sexual abuse and rape. There is some debate about whether ...more
I liked this better than I thought I would. True, it's incredibly simple in its form, and a lot of its style is just line breaks, but I found that it resonated with me than I expected it to. Though I didn't relate to everything in the book, and I didn't have to balance between two or more cultures growing up, a lot of what she says about love, loss, survival, and healing rang very true for me, thinking about my younger self, at either a personal or societal level, or sometimes both. I identified
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Well, it's amazing, obviously, and it's not like any of us expected anything else.
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I enjoyed many of the poems. I liked how short, simple and succinct some of them were.
2017 Better World Reading Challenge- a book by a person of color
2017 Better World Reading Challenge- a book by a person of color
I liked a lot of the poems, but there were also a lot that I just didn't get.
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Each one is so short yet packs incredible power. I want more.
Amazing!
Great collection of poetry.
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