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I've been waiting to read this book...

Only on page 19 and I'm just blown away by these poems. Weighted with history and information unknown of small disasters and catastrophies that escalate. Some lines that have blown me away:

"How do hips learn to sound out a child?"

"The past slung like a doe/ across its shoulders, as history/repeats it's hunger."

"A ghost kneels inme,/asks to be spared."

I love this book

Already amazed by the strength of these poems. Each one a punch in the gut

Walcott peers at Empire, as well as aging. And as poems flow together in sequence, it almost feels like aging move between Empire and nature, that aging is a type of colonization of the body, that death is to be taken over. But Walcott move from despising it , to acceptance to nature, to Empire, to acceptance and back, like the ebb and flow of tide in his beloved islands. This is a fantastic collection.

Only on page 13 and I've already highlighted and dog ear so many sections. This. This is what I've been needing to read. Validation, vulnerability, the feeling of overwhelm and frustration. To love a child and to also love creating works, to love oneself and not want to lose your whole self in motherhood. Ah! Thank you for this book.

I'm only a few pages in and I already feel what Chang is writing is pushing past boundaries and trying to find new pathways to discover and create memories. Something I'm also trying to do, almost creating a future by augmenting the memories of past and history. Her work is groundbreaking and I'm deeply appreciative of the work she has done here.

This is meant to be savored. Take your time, read, listen.

I'm almost finished with Sakr's first collection. Isn't it funny how us readers pick up books at stores, buy them, and they sit on shelves for a few years until we get to them? Well, it seems that books call to me when I need them most, or when I'm ready to understand and receive what they have to give. With the genocide happening in Palestine, this book is so relevant for our current times.

I've never read Forough, only heard about her in passing when listening to interviews with Kaveh Akbar and Solmaz Sharif, and never thought about reading her. But then going down a rabbit hole and link newsletters, etc... I found her. And I've only read the biography and few poems, but I know my life will never be the same. I am changing while reading this collection. Where have you been, my doppelganger?

Enjoying the natural & modern connections in these poems

Just a few poems in and already enjoying Franny's urgency, her call to action, and the main idea that the world has ended so many times, in so many ways, for so many cultures.

Learned more about my body than any sex Ed ever taught me.

Wonderful collection of poems so far. So inspiring. It's taking me forever because each poem is inspiring me to write.

Reading "Defining White", the poet isn't trying to define white, but the wind. Her question points to the fallacy of definition. The sight of a thing cannot fully define it. Rather, it's also syntax, sight, smell, etc. "Is wind a noun or a verb?" It can be both. Ultimately, the poem points to the flexibility of language and the poets ability to manipulate words to extend beyond typical meaning.

Loving this book!

I'm just a few poems in and already I'm loving this collection. It's been wonderful reading this while also listening to Naomi read at the Mass Poetry Fest 2021 and also listen to her on the VS podcast with Danez and Franny. Naomi is so down to earth. Her simple language accessible to everyone.

I'm just a few poems in and already I'm loving this collection. It's been wonderful reading this while also listening to Naomi read at the Mass Poetry Fest 2021 and also listen to her on the VS podcast with Danez and Franny. Naomi is so down to earth. Her simple language accessible to everyone.

Already loving these poems. The red negligee, the boy looking not at himself, but at the lake, wanting to be fluid, but the same. Wonderful lines.

Only 20 pages in and already loving Lorde's writing and perspective.