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Summary: One star for effort
Review: I feel generous. This is a one star book. I know several performance poets who could do one reading of one poem and put this book to shame. In comparison to other published Gen-X poets, Jewel has nothing unique to offer, hence this poor book is predictable and, as such, expendable.For anyone interested in better present-day poetry, check out Michelle Tea and Beth Lisick. Both have books that can be ordered through Amazon.com. Also look into Ellyn Maybe's "The Cowardice of Amnesia" and C.E. Amestoy's "Making-Millennium."
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Summary: a night without armor , touching in so many ways
Review: jewels book of poems, a night without armor, is my favourite book of poetry ever! What I like so much about her book is that each poem is meaningful and deep ,yet in a different way for each individual , Each one of us can take them into our lives and apply them differently ... at first i didnt like the way her poems didnt have an even flow to them (as in they werent rhyming and all) but once her beautiful words sunk in to me, I fell in love with the book and i simply adore her poem "infatuation"and "collect beads of night" and "freedom" her poems make me laugh , cry and really think ! congrats to her for being so sucessful , such a wonderful role model ,and such a caring person. she is trully a wonderful unique individual... and if you havent read the book yet ,please do , its amazing!
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Summary: The best poetry book I have ever read
Review: Jewel's book is the best most inspiring book I have ever have the pleasure to read. I have read it more then a 1,000 times and I still read it every night. She writes so beautifully and has such a natural grace. She is a true angle.
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Summary: Looking Deeper
Review: I write poetry, and it is difficult. Some of you people really vex me. Poetry in not just words. It takes patience, ditermination, hard work, love of poetry, and most of all talent. And lots of it! Please, read this book. But remember, look deeper in your heart and find the true meaning of all those words. Jewel is very talented. Reading A Night Without Armor, is really worth it.
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Summary: A Repost
Review: This is what happens when you raise a generation on the idea that one can write poetry totally devoid of any meter, rhythym, attention to word choice, and, for that matter, talent. But to publish it? Uniqueness, contrary to what one of the other readers claimed, does not always make you good. I may be a complete and total failure, horrible at what I do, and still be unique. Jewel is thoughtless, amoral (who else would publish such a thing?), heartless, merciless, and completely talentless, at least when it comes to poetry. Yet so many people have read and bought her book, even though it reminds me of shredding scores of papers in a shredder, scattering them, then rearranging them in an order that hardly makes sense, nor wants to. So I guess she is unique, and yet none of us want to be like her. To the person who wanted to meet Jewel: Buy a ticket. You'll find her concerts are very rarely if ever sold out.
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Summary: An interpretation
Review: That's a very interesting title, as many of you may have noticed. A Night Without Armor, as a review said once, supposedly referred to the fact that she always wrote at night. What this has to do with armor stupifies me. She probably added the 'without armor' to make it seem as if she were a knight(?), which, I find, is very wrong. Enjoy the analysis: the title of the book is the deepest this collection of 'poetry' ever gets.
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Summary: Please God, Don't Burn Us!
Review: Our Lord who art in heaven (his name is pretty hallowed) must be punishing us. Why else would he strike us down with this disgrace of a book? I'm surprised it got published - usually the publishers have a smidgen of an iota of a scintilla of a brain. I've read hundreds of adolescent poems and written a few myself, and while I thought they were bad - many inducing painful cringes - this is the most cringeworthy of all. The way she presents herself, totally solemn, even seriously, is a joke. At least the teenagers try and hide meaning in their verse. Jewel has all the literary knowledge of a dead clam, and half the poetic competence. I'm startled that this didn't get placed in the nonfiction section of the bookstore, which is what it is: a bunch of miserable, hard to read journal entries fed into a computer, with someone putting linebreaks wherever their fancy takes them. On a later thought: this book would be best placed in the Comedy/Humor section. Maybe even Children's Section, but there may be some clause in the law about 'not perverting or deranging the young with immoral literature,' which would well destroy those ideas.
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Summary: Jewel is an *angel* who is highly admired among us
Review: I haven't read this book, but I have read a few of Jewel's poems. She touches me and brightens up my day not only with her poems, but with her music. My brother and I don't really get along, but the one thing we can do is sing her songs together. Someone once asked me "where do ideas come from?", and I was able to give them an answer. Everbody has emotions and they have their own way of releasing them. When I get happy, sad, excited, nervous, scared, lonely, or angry, I write. I take all my thoughts and feelings and emotions and I build them up to the highest level possible til they get to the point where they explode. Then I let them come out and they come out in words or sentences or phrases. Some may make sence and some may not make sence, some may rhyme and some may not rhyme, but it doesn't matter as long as it matters to the writer. Now I'm not saying that I'm the greatest writer, but I am saying that my writing matters to me. You can look at it this way. You can't create a character without ideas, and you can't come up with ideas without a character to come up with them and you yourself are a character with youir own role to play. It's like a double package deal, you can't have one without the other. So in reality, your ideas are always there, it just takes a while to focus on them that's all. Of all that I've just stated, I can say this for sure. Jewel is an excellent writer and singer. She is an excellent writer because she has a natural ability to focus on her ideas and she does a wonderful job on it. I can't exactly classify Jewel as a singer because to me she's much more than that. She's an "Angel", she's a "Miracle of Life". She knows how to touch the lives of millions of people and does an incredible job at it. She also has an amazing voice and draws the attention of many people. I look up to her and I see the perfect role model. I have even tried to take up her style, but it just doesn't seem to work because "Jewel Kilcher" is the most unique person someone could possibly be. If I could say one thing to Jewel today, it would be that I would love to some day meet her and if I did, my heart would be touched forever.
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Summary: Jewel is an artist not a lucky pop star
Review: I thought Jewel's poetry was beautiful. It touched me in many ways. She is also a wonderful song writter and her poetry reflects that. I have no doubt that she fully derserved this book to be published.
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Summary: an honest collection of words with profound lining
Review: I thought that this was a beautiful book of honesty and innocense. The peoms were both eye-opening,comforting,and inspiring at times. All in all this book was a well written bittersweat collection of peoms. From a poets piont of view this touched me with a gentil sense of comfort. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever observed people in what is called our natural enviroment.
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