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Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen | Sophia Thakur
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In a powerful debut, rising star Sophia Thakur brings her spoken word performance to the page. Be with yourself for a moment. Be yourself for a moment. Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment. From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy. From youth to school to family life to falling in love and falling back out again--the poems draw on the author's experience as a young mixed-race woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy, this is poetry that will resonate with all young people, whatever their background and whatever their dreams.
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Emily92Bibliophile
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This was an absolutely wonderful collection of poems. I dont usually read much poetry, but this one has encouraged me to do so outside of novels in verse. Many of the poems hit home for me, and I am grateful Thakur put to words the feelings that can be so powerful, yet impossible to say.

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DAB
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Love the cover on this book.

BennettBookworm Angie Thomas = high praise indeed! 4y
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oddandbookish
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I‘ve never read a collection by a performance poet before, so it took a little getting used to at first. But once I got the hang of it, I loved it! Just reading the poems on paper doesn‘t do it justice. I actually ended up watching some of her performances on YouTube, including a few of the poems from this book. She really is a talent!

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2020/06/08/review-somebody-give-this-heart-a...

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