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Product Description
Poetry on adore and life
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #343705 in Books
- Published on: 2011-04-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .32" h x 7.99" w x 5.24" l, .36 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
Through motherhood, womanhood and all it entails, "A Black Girl's Poetry For a World" is relocating and singular reading, rarely recommended.
Margaret Lane
Reviewer
Midwest Book Review
5 Stars
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7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
Poetry Lives Here
By Pandorasecho
"poetry Lives Here" is a poem in this collection, nonetheless it could usually as good be a pretension of a book. we can't contend that we am finished with this book, nonetheless that isn't how communication collections work anyway, is it now? And This One Works. Everything from a pleasing cover to a communication inside, works so well, it looks easy.
She patrician it, A Black Girl's Poetry For a World, and even nonetheless we am a center aged white lady who grew adult in a city in Wyoming with Native American and Mexican Americans and White Americans and never even knew an African American until we was married and 26, we am still partial of "the World" this book is for.
These poems are unequivocally human, unequivocally many a womanlike life, filled with faith and doubts, hope, fears, fun and pain. It could be a author's journal, or cave or, we consider roughly any woman's.
I adore all a poems we have examination so far, nonetheless some pronounce some-more clearly to where we am now,
Let me share a square of one
From "Nearly Broken"
"My mind pronounced all was lost.
Hope not within my reach.
But a voice inside
said we would rise
And would not concur defeat."
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Women & Men Can Benefit from Rare Glimpses into This Poet's Soul!
By Betty L. Dravis
Many of a poems in this book overwhelmed my heart! Even nonetheless producer Kimberly LaRocca is from an wholly opposite culture, we are sisters. we felt her pain, her hopelessness, her joy...and her ultimate hope! we clarity she is a absolute lady who's had it tough entrance into her own... But she's doing it!
Though many of a poems are about bittersweet love, others about over adore and many about other life situations, one thing they have in common: They're all musical and sincere, giving us a loyal glance into a heart of this beautiful, soulful woman.
The title, A Black Girl's Poetry for a World, is a ideal pretension and a cover is one of a many cultured I've ever seen.
I haven't examination all a poems nonetheless since we trust communication should be savored slowly, like excellent food; communication is food for a soul. we glanced by any title, though, to get a feel for a whole book and found there's something for everybody in this small gem. we know I'm going to learn some-more life lessons as we examination and contemplate any poem separately. In further to releasing her low feelings and emotions, we trust that's how a author intends for her readers to penchant this book.
My favorite so distant is: A POET'S SONG. we like this one since we know a series of poets and they're usually like LaRocca describes:
I live in verse.
I consider in rhyme,
Thinking, rhyming
All a time.
The unhappiness that we might see,
Is all communication to me.
The complacency you're feeling now
Turns into rhyme for me somehow.
I don't know how
Or even why.
It sings to me from low inside.
And it creates up
The best of me,
Living, respirating poetry.
I consider writers are like that too; usually we consider in difference and story ideas...but always, always thinking. :-)
Author C.C. Cole summed it adult ideally in her review: "...large messages delivered by so few, easy-to-read lines and minimizing of cliches." (Thanks for vouchsafing me repeat your lines, C.C. Cole.)
I suggest this book for women AND group since there's no improved approach for them to know women than by reading this all-too-rare glance into a woman's essence and training what their women wish and need. LaRocca is not bashful about vocalization a unvarnished truth; a law that will advantage all, if we concede it.
Review by Betty Dravis, Feb 27, 2012
Author of award-winning "1106 Grand Boulevard"
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
A Delightful Poetic Journey!
By C.C.Cole
"A Black Girl's Poetry for a World" by Kimberly LaRocca is a collection of judicious poems addressing many levels of a tellurian existence, from pain, to love, and to bland living. What we unequivocally enjoyed are a vast messages delivered by so few, easy to examination lines, and minimizing of clichés. we suggest this to anyone that possibly reads communication often, or to novel-readers looking for a frisk into creativity that's lovely and inspirational. Five Stars!
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