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Frankly, the literary world is saturated with white male voices of dubious quality. Kaur's poetry should be given the same freedom to be flawed." [16] The Sunday Times review described the book as "alluding repeatedly to the personal damage of growing up in a world of abusive men, while being full of determination to recover." It said, "So if ...
Poems of family, abuse, journeys and love speak to readers in our Kansas City book club. ... “The imagery of being a child and growing up, there’s the usual childhood pain, but not the things ...
Despite growing up in a time when racism against Indigenous people was normalized and common, Johnson and her siblings were encouraged to appreciate their Mohawk ancestry and culture. Her paternal grandfather John Smoke Johnson was a respected authority figure for her and her siblings.
Kamala Das was a confessional poet whose poems have often been considered at par with those of Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. Kamala Das' first book of poetry, Summer in Calcutta was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She wrote chiefly of love, betrayal, and the consequent anguish.
Beyond caretaking, eldest daughters can feel "an implicit or explicit expectation for them to set the example for siblings," Wright said, leading to developing perfectionism later in life.
The poems have been described by critics as sweet, and being filled with the emotions of falling in love with love and life. [11] [9] "The breaking" brings the reader back to a dark place in the author's life. These poems relate to Kaur's sad feeling after a breakup. [11]
Elizabeth Acevedo is an American poet and author. [1] In September 2022, the Poetry Foundation named her the year's Young People's Poet Laureate. [2]Acevedo is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land.
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