unfortunately I didn't enjoy this book half as much as I expected. I discovered the author through her insta posts and I really enjoyed the poems I heard there unfortunately the ones I already knew also were the ones I liked the most in this book and the rest couldn't keep up. Hanson intrigued me with her poetry readings on TikTok and she convinced me to buy this book. The poems are written in a Rupi Kaur-esque way, but instead of enjoying 5-10% of the poems in Kaur's bundles, the poems in Hanson's "Home" resonated/moved/intrigued me about 40-50% of the time.

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I've haven't read much poetry but this was amazing. I don't know how else to say it but I loved it all. but every time i saw the ships i forgot about the light. i dove headfirst into the sea and swam to save their life. and “A first collection of poetry from a 20-year-old university student and “–Publisher’s description. Home by Whitney Hanson – eBook Details Interpreting emotions is hard sometimes. It’s okay if you need someone else’s words to help you understand how you feel. - poetry is the language of emotions” interpreting emotions is hard sometimes, it’s okay if you need someone else’s words to understand how you feel”I started writing poetry specifically around sixteen-years-old. I read a book by Rupi Kaur and that gave me the perspective that poetry could be anything I wanted it to be. It gave me a lot of freedom to put my thoughts on paper. That was something that was inspiring for me, but I always loved to write.” Is poetry the literary genre that you have always wanted to take part in when writing? To not be afraid to be vulnerable in any way that feels natural. Whether that’s in painting, writing, in any creative way that they express themselves. Other people need you and you never know when your story is going to impact other people. I really had no idea that this would and I thought I’d sell like 10 books. I didn’t know how important it was to share my story. So I would just encourage other people to share their stories and to be vulnerable.“ Losing people you love is hard but Whitney poems have a warm way of making you feel that its okay and it going to be okay, that you will make it out at the end of the tunnel. i know i should have turned the light on, i know i should have taken their advice, but i don’t know what love is if it is not sacrifice.” I enjoy how this book seems to have a clear relatable voice while touching on tough topics and also having extremely poetic elements. It is almost like reading a diary of her life experiences that she just so happened to turn into poems but they also feel so intentional as well. Sometimes with poetry, I have seen that authors focus too much on the language sounding pretty but they don’t say anything (at least that I can understand as a person reading for entertainment without deconstructing each line which is what some of the poets want, it just is not my favorite form of poetry so my opinion is a little bias). Whitney Hanson can create such amazing pieces that while sounding poetic and beautiful, have a voice that is easy to understand and wants to say something to the reader. She uses simple word choice overall, which blows my mind because I always try to “sound like a poet” when I write. This collection shows that you don’t always need “big fancy words” to create good works, even though she does have great use of word choice throughout her pieces. She wants the reader to relate and be able to feel what she is saying in her work. I believe that the voice she chose allows for that throughout her collection.

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I guess this wasn’t just my cup of tea. I wish there was mention that it’s not only poetry BUT ALSO quotes / poetry prose, because one sentence is not poetry for me. The way her words harmonized with my soul, this book has become my favorite poetry book I have ever read. Hands down! (and I’ve read a decades worth.) I grew up in rural Montana. So that’s where I call home, but I go to school in South Carolina right now.” When did you first start writing? i drowned us both in the process; the ships never found the shore. i ended up helping less when i meant to be helping more. From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poemsThis collection also does an amazing job of using metaphors throughout the pieces. The collection has a clear theme of using weather metaphors and figurative language that begins from the title and the cover art. While each poem doesn’t mention weather specifically, there is often at least a connection that can be made between the topic at hand and some sort of weather. The figurative language also lends itself so well to the imagery she can create in these pieces. She takes intangible things like emotions and turns them into tangible things like weather. One reason why I love poetry is because it can do things with words that some other works just can’t do. I think that the topics in which she chose and the language she used to present them do just that. I am incredibly impressed by what she can accomplish in this collection. Je la suivais sur tiktok et plusieurs de ses vidéos m’avaient touchées. Je n’ai pas été déçue de découvrir sa plume. Stormy is when the storms are unleashed within you. This section is sadness and heartbreak that accompanies lost love.Foggy is about losing your identity. The storm may have passed, but after heart break we often go through a process of redefining ourself.Sunny is a glimpse of joy and new love. It is the feeling of butterflies in your heart and sun on your skin. Climate is a reminder that all of the weather we encounter creates this beautiful experience that is life. It is a section of appreciation for both the rainy and sunny days.“ What is something you learned about yourself after writing these two books? my biggest fear is that we were meant to be. what if we were wrong, and we missed out on all the ways we were supposed to love each other. what if timing and space was just an excuse that we used to separate two hearts that beat simultaneously. maybe we are going to live the rest of our lives watching the wrong story unfold.”