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Our Numbered Days
Our Numbered Days | Neil Hilborn
Poetry. "When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly," Neil Hilborn writes in his debut full-length collection, OUR NUMBERED DAYS. In 2013, Hilborn's poem "OCD" went viral, and has amassed over 11 million views to date. While this collection ruminates on love, heartbreak, and mental illness, these poems are anything but saccharine. Hilborn uses the same humor and self-deprecation that propelled "OCD" to success in order to make his unmatched vulnerability all the more powerful. Ultimately, Hilborn is a poet of the people: his work is accessible, honest, and entertaininga revitalizing entry in contemporary poetry.
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DebbieGrillo
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TheSpineView Perfect choice! 🤩📖 3y
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lis_s
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“There are days when I cannot find the sun even though it‘s right outside my goddamn window, when getting out of bed feels like the key in the doomsday machine, so on those days, this is what I tell myself: whatever you are feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone is feeling that exact thing.

This is not to say you aren‘t special. This is to say thank god you aren‘t special.”

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Mehso-so

There‘s a reason I don‘t enjoy reading plays...they were written to be performed.
Maybe the same holds true for Neil Hilborn‘s poetry. I love Button Poetry but perhaps some of the emotion was lost in translation to the page.
I give this 2.5 stars. Next up in #poetry, Pillow Thoughts.

#insomniareading

Book 58/90 2/10/19

KathyWheeler The only drama class I took for my literature degrees that I actually enjoyed was the Shakespeare class where we watched the BBC productions while we were reading the plays. 6y
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HippieChickHomeschool
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Panpan

Please don‘t buy this book. If you like him on YouTube, just watch there. I had to force myself to read the whole thing. The line breaks are for the most part completely nonsensical- making it extremely difficult to read. Its like he wrote them out the way he thought a poem should look with no true understanding of poetry. I‘m filled with regret that I bought his second book as a preorder deal before first reading this.

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Zoe_reads_books
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So incredibly accurate.

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Tarlia
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Oh my god. 😭

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Mehso-so

I liked a lot, but had trouble ‘getting‘ other poems in this collection. You have to be in the headspace and praps I‘m not right now. Loved some of the poem titles tho!

Laura317 “You are like golf: I hate you.” 😂😂😂 7y
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TheWellAccompaniedBook
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Time for some poetry today. As usual, some astound me and some I just don‘t really get. Who‘s into poetry?

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Portsidelib
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I feel like Neil went viral over one of his LEAST strong poems, and that‘s saying something because “O.C.D” is a beautiful piece. But this book is full of them, and I can‘t decide if I want to go see him read live in Boston in December, or spare myself some crying in public.

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ju.ca.no
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little afternoon reading with Mia😊 so far, the two poems which I've known were the only ones I truly liked, the others are just okayish. Hopefully at least one more powerfull poem comes up 😊

rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 7y
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ju.ca.no
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ooups. Good thing I said my bookbuying ban starts in 2018, because otherwise I would have failed😂 two more new books are heading my way (plus some more for gifts)

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Fernoppy
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Many of us don't think of ourselves as poetry readers - for me it was the poetry I had to read in school and uni; so much of it was inaccessible and difficult to relate to. But modern poetry is a different beast and I am enjoying the ride. A finely written poem is a blow to the heart, it's the martial art of writing. Neil Hilborn is so sharp you don't even realise you've been cut until you see the blood. #neilhilborn #litsypoetry

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Fernoppy
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"We both had parents who believed / us when we said we weren't OK, but mine could afford / to do something about it." #neilhilborn #ohmyheart

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Fernoppy
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I'm loving Neil Hilborn's words, he writes so beautifully.

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Fernoppy
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So I fell into a wormhole on Book Depositary the other day - this is the first of a few books coming my way. #bookdepository #wormhole #whoops

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shutupsmalls
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I too / have stared at a razor and seen in it / a doorway.

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shutupsmalls
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This is the quote on the back of the book

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JSHouse
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Neil's poems just speak to me. Highly recommend. 'Here And Away' is one of my favorites. "There are days when I can not find the sun, even though it's right outside my goddamn window"... ⛅️?

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Erin01
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Boghunden
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Got this beautiful book today ❤️ #poetry #newin #currentlyreading

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Erin01
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Nute
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He's every lesson for the living and the dying, for the hurting and the hoping. He is words and phrases and sentences that I could never shape my lips to say as a life participant or spectator.
Applause for the courage to draw a second breath. Acknowledgement of the bravery it takes at times to just hold on.
Recommended!

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Nute
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Teardrops. 😥I understand being so destroyed by the loss of someone that the only way to take another breath and continue living is to turn every thought and every memory of them to vapor.
But the hope is that one morning will feel different than all the rest, and then it becomes okay to remember.

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L.J.Hamlin
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In love with these words

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Nute
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Oil Change appointment today at a car dealership in the middle of nowhere. At least I'll still be happy.😊

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mguerrax
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I decided to read a poem every single night before going to sleep and atm this is what I'm reading...

"I will sing to you all the things I stopped myself from saying while we were alive."

#NeilHilborn #OurNumberedDays

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SarahJoyce
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I've read a lot of this year and to me this collection is a mixed bag. There were poems that took my breath away and poems I skimmed. Luckily for me those catch my breath poems were enough to make up for some of the flops.

If you've ever had a long distance relationship, this is worth picking up.

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DebbieGrillo
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"Pretension can look like intelligence if you squint hard enough or wear glasses."

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SarahJoyce
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Ordered in January. Here mid March. Still excited.