Poems For The Weeping Kind

by Althea Davis

This collection of poetry on topics including love, loss, God, trauma, healing, family, and dreams is unflinchingly self-reflective and poignant - an examination of the situations in life that define us as individuals and unify us as humans. Poems for the Weeping Kind is Althea Davis' first published work and the culmination of a lifelong dream.
Content Poems For The Weeping Kind explores mature situations including generational trauma, addiction, partner abuse, intimacy, religion, and death.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction

66 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2023

Reviews

[V. M. Brewster]

• I am my mother and my father's child.
I am bruised in their image. •

❤️‍🩹🌳💭

Meine Erwartungen an diese Poetry-Sammlung orientierten sich am Social Media-Aufritt von Althea Davis. Einige ihrer Texte haben mich zutiefst berührt, deswegen wollte ich unbedingt mehr davon. Das Level an Tiefgründigkeit und Pointiertheit konnte diese Sammlung jedoch in meinen Augen nicht erreichen.

Poetry ist und bleibt ein sehr subjektives Thema, deswegen denke ich nicht, dass "Poems For The Weeping Kind" schlecht ist. Es ist nur nichts für mich.

Ich sehe jedenfalls großes Potenzial bei Davis und freue mich auf mehr Werke von ihr.

[Madison Henderson]

I liked this, and I look forward to reading more from Althea in the future.

[Thomas Raymond]

This book is absolutely legendary! These poems are so beautiful and reading them was an absolute pleasure. Truly inspirational work, with words that I will carry with me for the rest of time.

[Josiah Buster]

Davis's Poem "Kinder Than Man" absolutely wrecked me when I stumbled across it on Instagram a few years ago. Recently I was looking for the poem again and I saw she had a book, so I bought it. It was okay.

[Kira :)]

If you like Rupi Kaur, you will like this book.

I enjoyed elements of this book, moments of the poems, and some of the phrasing. However, I did find the overall tone of the poetry a little repetitive, and would have liked to see a little more variation in pace.

There seems to be a trend in modern poetry where poems have that soft and romantic lens, and slow lilting pace which I think personally I am realising is not my style.

I think poetry is hard to review due to it being incredibly subjective but if you are a lover of modern poems, I would recommend giving this book a look for yourself, just like any other.

[Melissa McLoghan]

liked it

It was a nice, tiny little book of poems.
The issue I had was that I came for something in the style of her poem about animals, and nothing in "poems for the weeping kind" came close to that.
It's about family, family-issues, some other mental health topic and yes, I did like some to most of the poems, but still I didn not get what I expected and the book is very thin and lacks diversity regarding the topic of poems.

I'm sure there is more inside this author. I would probably give a second poem-colelction a chance if the poems were about different topics.

[Emily]

The poem “And Her Name Was Sue” resonated with me like few other poems have in my life. The poem is simple and yet so thoughtful and deep.

[The_J]

"Life moves on" - well if you pass on this your life would probably move on better.

[Daniel]

Enjoyed it but it felt a little short. Would have liked another chapter or two, or another few poems per chapter

[Lauren]

I ordered the book because I read a few of Ms. Davis' poems online and loved them! The book was a big letdown, just... not good.