Ruby Franciscno book helium is a good quick read. I am unsure of my part and to change that I dive into words like this. Three things that are massively affecting far too many people. However I do think it’s important for us to educate our selves on matters of sexism, racism and privilege. I know poetry isn’t for everyone and that’s fine. Words like the ones found in the follow poems in this book Page (page 9), To the Man Standing on the Corner Holding the Sign That Said “God Hates Gays (page 66-67), Rifle II (page 70-73), Mercy (page 80), Cookout (page 87), Complainers (page 91-94). Words that need to be heard more than they are. Though that is definitely part of it, their love poetry, like this book is written very different as I’ve already said. Poetry written by people of color do not focus on just love and depression. So maybe this is just because of what I am choosing to read. Now I also haven’t read that much poetry, we are still talking under 20 books or so.

I haven’t seen their branch out to cover topics of race and privilege.

It’s sad to me how the poetry I have read, written by white men or women only over cover topics of love and depression. I struggled with it for years and I’m just now getting use to the temperature.įrom there he covers depression, race and honestly there are so many wonderful words in this one hundred pages, I don’t know where to begin. Learning to love yourself and take compliments is important. The love poems written in here don’t fall into the troupe of “women are so beautiful but they don’t know it”, but he did write love poems. I think that overall I need to start seeking out more books that call out bad behaviors. But that’s not how it is and I appreciate lines like that when I see them. There’s this idea in my head that I shouldn’t be congratulating this author for being so frank with his words, this should be common place and not abnormal. It’s scary to me how many men are raising sons to treat women like objects. Right now I can think of two men in my life whose sons will be raised aware and one of them hasn’t even had their first kid yet. But I feel like more people need to understand that children learn their behaviors from us. Maybe the lines hit me harder because it’s been an insane month in the US. I wish that more were open to seeing the damage done. To see it written so blatantly, in a poem and that poem talking about the generations before and changing for the future, surprised me. It’s not actually that often that a male author writes about playing a part in the role of sexism, at least so far in my reading experience.

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