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Roetry by Cervante

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Roetry  by Cervante ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Rating 4.5/5 GRAB YOUR GEM OF A POETRY Synopsis Roetry. Cervante's debut independent collection of poetry written over hip hop instrumentals. Experience rhymes fulfilled with pain love and joy as each page serves a discrete purpose.  Roetry takes readers through a journey of moments in life. My Thoughts First of all I want to say two simple words for this lovely book I just completed  "A Gem" Amazing and Useful book as a starting point for my English literature dissertation focusing on hip-hop lyrics. I read this in the hopes it would give me some grounding for the literary analysis of hip-hop, rap and poetry, especially because I'm not particularly good at analysing poetry full-stop, and it met my expectations on that! I'm sure I will be referring back to my notes from this as I get further into my research. Easy to read, and although it goes into technical, poetic terms (which is obvious fr...

Review : A Piece of me By Sarah Wilson

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A PIECE OF ME  BY SARAH WILSON ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MY RATING 4.5/5 GRAB YOUR COPY VIA AMAZON NOW I LOVE YOU I love you IS all I want to say I NEED you ALWAYS WITH ME I WANT you LIKE NO ONE else will All of us, after a certain age – poets included – feel the need to take a backward glance, to rummage around in our own utterly unique collection of remembered people, sights and sounds, talismanic objects, watershed moments, and to savor again the richly blended emotions we attach to them. And there’s where the poet’s challenge lies. How do you make that personal curio cabinet of memories emotionally available to a reader? Which of one’s recollections will resonate for someone else the way they do for oneself? How much backstory is really necessary, and how little will it take to throw off or obliterate a delicate nuance of feeling?  A piece of me By Sarah Wilson is a marvelous collection of contemporary poems on love , hate , friendship , loss , heartbreak , hope and fai...