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Not really a poetry fan but Loved this one. Highly recommend.

Day 8. #nationalpoetrymonth

I'm still working my way through this book. I don't really know what to say about it yet. Maybe it is one of those books that you have to let ripen inside you for a while before you can find the right words.

So far, this book isn't at all what I was expecting. I'm 20 pages in, and I'm learning so much. It's kinda like a cross between history and poetry. It's painful to read, but I'm not allowing myself to look away. It's important that the raw and jagged parts of history are shared and passed on. I think that's the only way to stop the cycle from continuing on. We have to be honest about the unspeakable and learn to form the words to speak them.

People have been loving salt by Nayyirah Waheed so I am recommending Migritude by Shailja Patel. This collection takes no prisoners and cuts to the quick. It is beautiful.

#poetry #diverseAThon #diversity

"I will give myself
to the moment
not the thought
give myself to the story
not the reception
bow down to the gods
not the applause."

The book is incandescent in its rage, in the fever with which it demands people to take notice of more than the world immediately around them. Patel's words dig deep in the softer corners of your person making you uncomfortable about the things you may be unconsciously complicit with about. Migritude. Read it.