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How to Read a Poemuses images like the mouse, the hive, the switch (from the Billy Collins poem)-to guide readers into new ways of understanding poems. Photo by Paul Hudson, Creative Commons, via Flickr. And yet they exhibit a strange dispassion, that of the icy calm observer.
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They open a door into a personal interior, displaying the full range of emotions, from kindness and love to anger and outrage. The poems of bone create discomfort and sometimes disorientation. It is a cool eye looking with detachment and distance, even when, or especially when, she considers herself. “Sabbath” is also a good example of how the poems of bone are highly personal and yet carefully framed, as if the poet has stepped outside of the words and the story they tell and is observing herself and the people around her. This poem almost reads like a photograph.Įveryone says you have her face and it’s a faceĮven locked doors. Perhaps because many of these poems first saw life on Instagram, Daley-Ward uses a strong visual, almost photographic element. Others are longer, sometimes considerably longer, like “it is what it is,” which tells a story about family that continues for 11 pages. Some of the poems of bone are short, no more than a few chiseled lines. Daley-Ward is also the author of The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (2018) and the forthcoming The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself (November 2021). Penguin Books republished the collection in 2017, including a foreword by American writer Kiese Laymon. Her poetry first became known through Instagram she self-published the first edition of bone in 2014.
She struggled to support herself through her art and moved to South Africa, where she worked as a writer and often performed her poetry. Born in northern England of a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father, Daley-Ward was raised by her Seventh-day Adventist grandparents.
And she doesn’t care if you lump it.Īs you read through poems of love, struggle, power, sensuality, sadness, joy, and trauma, you sense the poet is someone who not only defies expectations but also ignores them. The 72 poems in the collection are always arresting and often shocking, telling you this is who the poet is, like it or lump it. If you like to be jolted out of your comfort zone, read bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward.
Yrsa Daley-Ward First Known Via Instagram
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