Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

ISBN: 1536209929

Author: Thakur, Sophia

Condition: New

In a powerful debut, rising star Sophia Thakur brings her spoken word performance to the page.Be with yourself for a moment.Be yourself for a moment.Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment.From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy. From youth to school to family life to falling in love and falling back out again-the poems draw on the authors experience as a young mixed-race woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy, this is poetry that will resonate with all young people, whatever their background and whatever their dreams.