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Summary: I cant believe i read this
Review: beautiful, like the birth of stardust. as brave as a flowering cactus.
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Summary: a radiant piece of work
Review: beautiful, like the birth of stardust. as brave as a flowering cactus.
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Summary: Sometimes Good, Sometimes Bad
Review: Due to the major discrepancies in reviews on this book, I decided to take a look at its contents for myself and be the judge of Jewel's poetry.After reading just a handful of the beginning poems, I began to notice a trend... it seems her writing, perhaps 50-70% of what she turns out, at least, in this book, seems incomplete. Some of the ideas, I noted, were good solid -poetic- pieces that could be put to great use when used in conjuction with other such thoughts. Unfortunately, she seems to be in the habit of writing one-liners when it comes to poetry. I write these one-liners myself sometimes, but I just don't feel they're complete -enough- to warrant calling them a poem in its entirety. But, on the other hand, I think Jewel shows amazing poetential for spinning *many* great poems, if maybe she would be a little more discriminating in her choice of poems. For example, "Awaken, Love" is one of the 'complete' poems, in my approximation, and conveys emotion! ! like some of the other poems fail to do. "Lovers for Lilly", "Home", and others like them are the ones I can truly say I enjoyed. But, some of them fail to get through to me... leaving me saying "And then what...?"
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Summary: Jewel can have a way with words..
Review: I bought this book of poetry from a favorite artist of mine, Jewel Kilcher, never knowing what to expect from her. Most poetry released by singers has been anything but extraodinary. Jewels is much better than dull but this doesnt surpass the level of amazement in her work. Some poems in her book I can never get enough of, but others seem to flutter images across the paper with no flowery launguage or meaning to it. One example is "Junkie"...'My mother says, she knows what im going to be when I grow up.' Short and as dull as pastille apartment walls. Bieng a poet myself I very often use metaphors expressing feelings not capable by the normality of words. In alot of the poems in 'A Night Without Armour" she does an excellent job of usuing beautiful art launguage as a sign of her poetic capabilities which shows the reason I gave this 4 stars. I read this book nearly every night because some poems striked a cord with me and the emotions she wrote down. Thus, I conclude that this book may not be jaw-dropping but I definitly recommend it for some very decent poetry; about calfs, Alaskan beauty, and other such things this so-called normal world can relate to.
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Summary: I liked it!!!
Review: I got the book from the library this past summer because I am a Jewel fan and I like poetry. Some of the poems were hard for me to understand, but some really touched me. I have one of her poems sitting at my desk everyday and every time i read it I feel what she is feeling. I like her poetry style! I recommend the book.
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Summary: I cant believe i read this
Review: I was at my sisters house, lookig threw her book collection. I saw jewel's a night without armor. I started reading the ridiculous poems and just being amazed at how bad an attempt of poetry someone can write. SO BAD!
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Summary: a real poet
Review: I was disheartened to see some people diss Jewel's poetry. When I went to buy the book, I too thought that it was only published because of her name and that it couldn't be that good, blah, blah, blah. But I was wrong! When I actually sat down and read the poems, it became clear to me very quickly that this is real poetry, not simple little rhymes that anyone can write, or abstract symbolism that no one can understand. Instead, this was intuitive, soulful, and meaningful poetry that spoke to me and impressed me with its colorful use of language, imagery, and metaphor. My favorite poem in this collection is "God Exists Quietly." Jewel's poetry is graceful, eloquent, insightful, confessional, spiritual, and above all, genuinely poetic.
David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
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Summary: Easy Read and Well Done!
Review: Jewel does a fine job in using language which evokes imagery of rustic secrets, peaceful solitude, relationships, etc. She expresses her love of the outdoors in a spiritual way. A major strength of this group of poems is that they are easy to read and don't take a lot of "analysis" to see what they actually are, to see their true beauty. I look forward to reading more of her poems. It is obvious that she loves life very much!
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Summary: Cool.
Review: My best friend has this book and I took the chance to read most of the poems in it. Some of them really made sense and hit home, others, well, weren't so good. But no one, including Jewel, can be perfect and great all the time. So give the girl a break if you didn't like her poetry. Also I noticed that some of the reviews submitted by other readers for her book were rather prejudiced. One review remarked,"typical of high school students." I bet this person was in high school once too. (And just for the record, Jewel isn't in high school anymore.) I also noticed teenagers seemed to like the book, but adult mainly said it was horrible. The lovely generation gap makes its existance known again. Jewel wrote this book of poetry from her soul and her experiences. I do have to say, though, that I believe she should stick to acting and music though, since she is more capable in those aspects then she is in poetry. I also must say that I admire her as a guitarist, as I also play guitar and piano and realise how gifted she is as a musician.
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Summary: This is just sad
Review: Poe, Frost, e.e. cummings, Shakespeare, Shelley, Rimbaud, Baudelaire,Dickinson,Blake,all great and familiar poetic luminaries, all lighting the stage of life with their brilliance and creativity, illuminating our minds with their eternal brain stimulating art, even influencing languages and society, changing lives and inspiring others. I think Jim Morrison could be rated up here with these monumental cornerstones of Western society. But Jewel? Jewel?! I don't think so. Her poetry has become impossible..Impossible because its actually worse than her music. Something I believed existed entirely within the imagination. Her poetry reads like something scrawled by an overwrought angst ridden teeniebopper restless with the fleeting heart flutterings of the post puberty flatulence called infatuation but mistaken as "love". Bereft of intelligence or wisdom, creativity or ingenuity this can only be rated as "bad poetry". Very, very bad poetry. Laughably dimwitted, flighty and depressingly sad poetry. Sad because the English language in all of its nuances and complexities could be abused in such a way. Its a sad, sad world and Jewel's poetry sums it all up in a neat sad little bundled collection of scratched banality. Its sad that a group of trees had to die for this. This is just...sad.
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