Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump
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From award-winning reporter and author of Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald...
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens is the definitive collection from the man Harold Bloom has...
The Blind Roadmaker
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If the starting point for a number of poems in Ian Duhig's richly varied new collection is Sterne's...
The Noise of a Fly
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The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since...
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Almost Home: Poems
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From the Instagram poet and author of the exquisite Please Don't Go Before I Get Better comes a...
Becs (244 KP) rated Words That Kill in Books
Oct 2, 2019
Genre: Mental Health, Young Adult
Audience: Young Adult but also mature audiences as well
Reading level: Middle to High School
Interests: Depression, Mental Health, Anxiety, Suicide, Abuse, Hope, and Love.
Style: Light to hard – depending on the person.
Point of view: First person
Difficulty reading: Very easy to read but be warned, it does make you very emotional.
Promise: Words That Kill promises a poetry collection that talks about mental health and it delivers.
Quality: I believe everybody should read this even if they haven’t dealt with mental health.
Insights: Not taking the grammatical and spelling errors, the poems were a lot lighter to read compared to Rupi Kuar or even Shakespeare.
Ah-Ha Moment: There wasn’t really a moment where I went ‘Ah yea, that’s the turning point’. This is only because it wasn’t really a story, more of a poem that brings memories of the past back to life.
Favorite quote: “There is no need to hide in the shade, the light will come and your pain will fade.” – This is a great representation of how depression works. You have your good and your bad moments.
Aesthetics: The thing that drew me to the book in the first place, minus the topic of mental health of course, was the fact that the entire book is white words on an entirely black background. I’ve never seen a book have that aesthetically pleasing style and I love it!
“Like a flower, I will bloom again – depression.”
The Unstill Ones: Poems
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An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut...
Roxanne (13 KP) rated Stupid Poems 11 in Books
Nov 14, 2018
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I thought this collection of poetry was fantastic as it gave me proper belly laughs.
This author really knows how to write great poetry...
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It was weird, random, hilarious and I honestly could not fault the rhyming; that is some skill!
If I was really hunting for anything negative I would say that it could do with a bit more editing as I did notice a few mistakes, not enough to knock off any points though.
If you would like something random to read I would recommend picking this one up as it is a short, easy to read book that once you start you just have to finish it.
Useful Verses
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Richard Osmond's debut collection Useful Verses follows in the tradition of the best nature writing,...
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