@wow_reads podcast drop: WOW Teen Reading Ambassadors participate in #BigReadTucson to discuss Postcolonial Love Poem & We Are Water Protectors ▶️ https://worldsofwords.buzzsprout.com/2080893/12275654-wow-reads-bonus-trap-joins...
pickFor a young poet this is very good. Can‘t wait to read her future work.
pickPowerful, haunting, raw, sexual. This short book of poems sings honors the past, present and future of Indigenous people and the natural world in a beautiful and impactful way. #BookspinBingo
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@phantomx I finished! @WanderingBookaneer I‘m going to send this back to you to hold/keep while you wait on the other books from Sam. I attached y‘all in the email correspondence this morning. Thanks for a great round of poetry! #lmpbc
This got delivered to the wrong apt but our office had it (they didn‘t notify me lol) anyways it is here!!!! #lmpbc @WanderingBookaneer @phantomx @SamAnne
pickI loved this collection; Diaz's poems are provocative, moving, and familiar. I was struck with nostgalia when it came to her poems about her and her brother-reminded me of my own brother. Her provocative poems gave off vibes of Sor Juana Ines, and Diaz makes readers think about language and nature beyond what we understand of it. #lmpbc #groupU #poetry @WanderingBookaneer @SamAnne @TheBookKeepers
Working on finishing my lmpbc for #GroupU by the end of this week, I'm enjoying the imagery throughout this collection #lmpbc @TheBookKeepers @WanderingBookaneer @SamAnne
pickAbsolutely overwhelmed by this collection. I read so many of these poems several times and just steeped myself in them. A collection I will surely return to.
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This #poetry collection is powerful overall, but this poem has moved me in unexpected ways.
Reading a poem each day
pickReally enjoyed this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. I need to sit with it for longer. Loved the water, river conservation themes, tribal culture, troubled brother. It‘s headed to @Soff @Pogue @Chrissyreadit
#LovePrevails Day 8: Quite a lot of #LoveHateRelationship poems in here. Perfect for our #SurvivalStories2021 theme as we “decolonize” our bookshelves. Review is forthcoming.
pickThis was my first time reading a complete collection from Natalie Diaz, but it won't be my last. This was a truly phenomenal collection of poetry and a new favourite for me easily. Highly recommended.
#InspiredNewYear Day 10: One reason why we host reading challenges over at GatheringBooks is because we wish to expand our reading horizons and really go outside of our reading comfort zones to be #courageous. This year for #SurvivalStories2021, we plan to decolonize our bookshelves by surfacing more narratives from the marginalized/disenfranchised/colonized. Here‘s the first part of my reading plan for the year: https://wp.me/pDlzr-mT3
pickDiaz's second collection finds the poet struggling with physical desire as contemporary America seeks to erase her identity as an indigenous person. The core notions of existence and identity fill these pages as she identifies not just with her own people, but with the land, with women and with other minorities and races. Recommended.
I‘ve fired up the spreadsheet and started planning for 2021. Two reading challenges for the coming year sounds just about right, as I will be homeschooling my two tweens, nursing the bébé, and working on writing a book of my own. ? I am looking forward to it! #Booked2021 #POPSUGARreadingchallenge
pickMany of these poems foreground desire and love, but as noted in the title, it all happens in the context of a colonized world. I wasn't sure whether this felt like defiance or resignation or acceptance, or all of those, or none. It was affecting, for sure.
pickThis was one of my highly anticipated reads for #nationalpoetrymonth after really loving her last collection. There are poems in this collection about her brother, but far more about romantic love (delightfully steamy!) Other themes include the disappearing indigenous people (due to increasing violence and other types of erasure) and... basketball!
Some of my favorites in the first reading were American Arithmetic and Ode to the Beloved's Hips
pickThe title is apt for this one. This collection includes not only poems about romantic love, but also love for the land and water, her brother, and Native peoples. Wonderful use of language in these beautiful poems. 5⭐️
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