[Poetry Friday] Enough With Words

Myra here.

Thank you to Sarah Grace Tuttle for hosting this week.

This year, we hope to feature books that fit any of the following criteria:

1. Postcolonial literature and/or [pre/post] revolutionary stories

2. Stories by indigenous / first-nation peoples / people of colour

3. Narratives of survival and healing, exile and migration, displacement and dispossession

4. Books written or illustrated by people who have been colonized, oppressed, marginalized

The Hurting Kind (Amazon | Book Depository)

Poetry by Ada Limón
Published by Milkweed Editions (2022) ISBN: 9781639550494 Bought a copy of the book. Book photos taken by me and edited using an iPhone app.

It has been months since I joined our Poetry Friday community. My current work responsibilities make it nearly impossible for me to post regularly and to also visit friends’ blogs which make me feel extremely guilty. I hope that there will come a time when I would be able to manage my time a bit better and I can take part once again in enriching and lovely conversations with friends in the kidlitosphere. Please do know that while I may not leave comments on your blogposts, I am eager to get back to doing this in time and that I am sending you all my well wishes.

I bought a copy of this book while spending the summer this year with family in the Bay Area. Ada Limon was just named the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States (the first Latina American to hold this post), and she just published The Hurting Kind. The book found me again after my trip to The Netherlands (see my discovery of Dutch novelist, Cees Nooteboom here) when I was searching for poetry to quiet my spirit. There were several that spoke deeply to me, but none like the one I am sharing with you below: The End Of Poetry. I hope it manages to find you, too, at the perfect time.

#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Update: 96 out of target 100