Helium
Genre: Poetry
Published: November 2017
Thoughts
Can't say I know much about spoken poetry, I had never heard of the author but again as many people this year trying to find more poetry. I saw a review done by a Booktuber mentioning this book so I decided to pick it up.
It covers love and unrequired feeling, broken heart. The first part was exactly what I expected to find, poetry about lost relationships. I am not too keen on the topic but decided to continue.
Then it touches subjects like sexism, racial issues, it critiques social standards, oh my I really loved this book. The way it expresses everything that makes you connect to the author and you do feel the rage, the impotence, the fear, it does transmit his feeling on the matter which is what I look for in poetry.
The way it speaks about how men have been taught to visualize women, the way he takes on the stand against their god... I loved the one titled: To the man standing on the corner holding a sign that said "God hates Gays"
Especially:
"I want you to tell your God
that my God is looking for him"
It is witty, it is passionate and it resonates with you the right way, like good poetry, should; again this is subjective it is completely personal how anything makes you feel but it had been a while since I had found a collection that clicks.
Now I regret having picked this up in a digital format, it would have been so much better to have it either in a physical format to hold properly or even an audiobook, the feelings that most of the poems transmit are powerful but hearing them I imagine will be even more so.
Hard to really say anything about poetry I am not an expert on writing but I feel even more unfit to critique poetry, so I will not. I will simply state that this collection made me feel, I was able to see what the author has such strong feelings about and connect to it.
I love it
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