The Heart A Rose
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The Heart A Rose: A Masterfully Crafted Poetic Journey Through Lifelong Love Are you a hopeless...
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Selected Poems and Prose
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The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane,...
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Francois Villon and David Georgi
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One of the most original and influential European poets of the Middle Ages, Francois Villon took his...
The Good News
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"Today you turn up five habits to quit for happiness: criticism, control, complaint, excuses,...
In the Flesh
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Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the...
Warriors of Love: Rumi's Odes to Shams of Tabriz
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n 1244 a man wrapped in a coarse black coat entered Konya and so into the life of Islam's most...
I don't think I need to go into much detail regarding the story; everyone knows Alice in Wonderland! What I will say is that the extra bits are lovely; there are letters from Carroll himself, details about how the story was written and printed, and other notes.
As for the illustrations... I love them! The original Tenniel illustrations are all in full colour, displayed wonderfully throughout the book. It just all looks so gorgeous!
So as I said, I won't want to go into too much detail. The story is obviously fantastic, and it's nice to see it all together - even with the "deleted scene" from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. The poems and songs and riddles... Fantastic!
Everything about this book is lovely. The cover, the layout, the red shine around the edge of the pages. Love it! A huge favourite of mine. 5 stars for definite.
La Vita Nuova
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Vita Nuova (1292-94) is the first of Dante's major writings. It is a supreme work of love;...
The Collected Works
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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of...
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated The Poet X in Books
May 30, 2019
I've always loved poetry for that reason; especially poetry that plays with formatting - spacing and line breaks and size of stanzas. It's so much more evocative than simple paragraphs of prose. (My favorite poet is probably e.e. cummings, who is rather infamous for unusual formatting.)
Acavedo does similar things, making Xiomara's poetry explode across the page when necessary, and ordering it into simpler stanzas in calmer moments. It's not rhyming, even poetry; this is written slam poetry. And I love it.
Xiomara is Dominican, living in Harlem, with a very strict, religious mother. Her twin brother is gay but not out to their parents; Xiomara is fine with this but knows their mother won't be. Her poems cover her need to protect her brother and herself, both from their parents and from the outside world. She writes about street harassment and questioning God and falling in love with a boy, which is also against her mother's rules. Her poems are at turns heartbreaking and joyous, but always beautiful.
This is an amazing book, and is the second book on my Best of the Year list. I am blown away.You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.com