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Paper Planes: A Collection of Poetry
In her second poetry collection, Paper Planes, Miranda Kulig compares the ups and downs of life to the flight of a paper airplane. Told in three insightful chapters, this stunning collection includes hand-crafted illustrations alongside poems that will challenge, encourage, and delight.
132 pages, Paperback
Published March 13, 2020
About the author
Miranda Kulig
3 books12 followersMiranda Kulig picked up a pencil at the age of six and has had a hard time putting it down ever since. She is a writer of poetry as well as fiction and has been previously published in the Huron River Review (issue 15), Michigan’s Best Emerging Poets, and America’s Best Emerging Poets.
When she isn’t writing, Miranda can be found cuddling adorable babies, drinking Starbucks at Target, watching sunsets by the lake, or working on her next book.
When she isn’t writing, Miranda can be found cuddling adorable babies, drinking Starbucks at Target, watching sunsets by the lake, or working on her next book.
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April 12, 2020
Paper Planes is a poetry collection deeply needed in our day and time.
The words on these pages carved me wide open and made me feel seen, understood, and unbroken. Paper Planes is at its core a love letter and a siren's song to the anxious, the depressed, the lonely and afraid; to the wounded heart in all of us, the childhood dreamer bent and battered and left crooked by all the walls we hit when we thought we could no longer soar. Through three parts - Soar, Crash, and Mend - Kulig takes the reader on a journey through whimsy, brokenness, and back to hope. By the end I was in tears, the pages a blur before me, the damaged wings in my own heart slowly smoothing out to catch the wind breathed into them by the incredible words I'd just read. And reread. Many times.
Evocative, scintillating, yet approachable and easy to comprehend, Paper Planes is a celebration of the indelible human spirit, the ability to rise and rise again, to not let tragedy and hurt be the end of us. Like its predecessor, Kulig's debut collection Breaking into Butterflies, I walked away from Paper Planes feeling like I understood myself and the world around me better; like I could take it all on, but gently, with mercy and compassion knowing so many around me have soared and crashed and are still mending. And aren't we all?
This is a collection for both long-time poetry fans and those who aren't sure if this genre is really for them. Trust me, this book is. I cannot recommend enough that you read it - that you find your own heart in its pages. Like me, I hope you will find this to be true after reading: I am everywhere and everything that I am meant to be.
The words on these pages carved me wide open and made me feel seen, understood, and unbroken. Paper Planes is at its core a love letter and a siren's song to the anxious, the depressed, the lonely and afraid; to the wounded heart in all of us, the childhood dreamer bent and battered and left crooked by all the walls we hit when we thought we could no longer soar. Through three parts - Soar, Crash, and Mend - Kulig takes the reader on a journey through whimsy, brokenness, and back to hope. By the end I was in tears, the pages a blur before me, the damaged wings in my own heart slowly smoothing out to catch the wind breathed into them by the incredible words I'd just read. And reread. Many times.
Evocative, scintillating, yet approachable and easy to comprehend, Paper Planes is a celebration of the indelible human spirit, the ability to rise and rise again, to not let tragedy and hurt be the end of us. Like its predecessor, Kulig's debut collection Breaking into Butterflies, I walked away from Paper Planes feeling like I understood myself and the world around me better; like I could take it all on, but gently, with mercy and compassion knowing so many around me have soared and crashed and are still mending. And aren't we all?
This is a collection for both long-time poetry fans and those who aren't sure if this genre is really for them. Trust me, this book is. I cannot recommend enough that you read it - that you find your own heart in its pages. Like me, I hope you will find this to be true after reading: I am everywhere and everything that I am meant to be.
September 13, 2021
Simply beautiful, yet filled with such complex thoughts and parallels to life. These words made my heart ache with truth. I loved it!!
April 12, 2022
It was free, but felt like a Rupi Kaur copy.
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