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Nappy Edges

Ntozake Shange

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Written by one of the new voices of American poetry, this volume brings together poems that are...

Briannabrown1019 (799 KP) rated Whiskey, Words, & A Shovel I in Books

Jun 25, 2018

Whiskey, Words, & A Shovel I

R.H. Sin | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

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For the hour or two that it takes to read this book of poems, many will feel that they have a friend. Someone who understands what they're going through. It feels very much like a pep talk from your best friend, reminding you of your worth. Most of the poems are very short. 3-5 lines for the smallest, but overall I really liked this collection, and I plan to read the other two in the series.
"With whiskey
I buried my emotions..."

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Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum

Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt

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CRAZY MAYONNAISY MUM is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number...

A Woman without a Country

Eavan Boland

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The poems in Eavan Boland's new collection seek out the delicate intersections between generation,...

Sleeping Under the Juniper Tree

Pauline Stainer

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Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred', conveying sensations 'with an...

The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Resident Aliens: Stories of NYC in the 1960s in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Beth Porter's "Resident Aliens," gives us a novella, four poems and three short stories all focusing on the darker sides of post-war/post-depression era of New York through characters whose lives reflect it's less glamorous neighborhoods. Read my review of this unique collection here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/10/09/gritty-new-york-stories-and-poems/<br/><br/>NOTE: THIS Beth Porter is the author of ONLY "The Net Effect" and no other books attributed to her on this site.