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Blythe Baird

Auteur van If My Body Could Speak

3 Werken 106 Leden 4 Besprekingen

Werken van Blythe Baird

If My Body Could Speak (2019) 72 exemplaren
Give Me A God I Can Relate To (2015) 20 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1996-08-05
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Woonplaatsen
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Opleiding
Hamline University

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While the issues and hurts focused upon are not mine, Blythe Baird represents them evocatively and opens a window into the depths even from far off.

The one that hits hardest for me remains, however, the very first one - In The Shape Of A Poem
 
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Kalira | 1 andere bespreking | May 12, 2024 |
Watch me build an empire from the ashes
of everything that tried to destroy me.


Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is by far the most powerful collection of poetry I have ever read. My entire existence resonated to every word in this book. I felt myself feeling the emotions, feeling the pain and experiencing the liberation.

Thank you so much for writing this book.
 
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aubriebythepage | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 7, 2023 |
Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read and review Sweet, Young & Worried.

When I came across the book I realised that the authors name seemed familiar. I think I heard her slam poem, when the fart girl gets skinny in freshmen year. Aside from that I haven't read or listened to a lot of her work but now I plan on doing so.

Blythe Baird's collection is beautifully mature. Some of the poems make you sad, but there's a sense of a person who has grown up in these pieces which helps a lot; which gives you hope. That our personalities are more than what broke us.… (meer)
 
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bookstagramofmine | 1 andere bespreking | Oct 18, 2022 |
I don't think I've read something so hauntingly beautiful, bleak and honest in a long time.
 
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ennuiprayer | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 14, 2022 |

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Werken
3
Leden
106
Populariteit
#181,887
Waardering
½ 4.3
Besprekingen
4
ISBNs
3

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