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Summary: Captures Life at the begining
Review: Jewel, a "jack-of-all-trades" has captured the essence of a time most of us has gotten to old to remember. The reader has the chance to open their minds to the ease of romance, and changes made ever so slighty through rifts of time. This book of poems, disguised as the songwriters emotion's filled the empty void, of which other's much like myself, have been waiting to be filled.
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Summary: THE BEST!
Review: I LOVE poetry. When i first herd jewel sing i was so impressed, then i later heard that she had a poem book out so i rushed and bought it. I read it all the time! I have memorized so many of her beautiful poems. I think that this book is the best poetry book ANYone could ever read! Plus, amazon gives you the best price- i bought my copy for 19.00!
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Summary: Huzzah! The Greatest poet since Wordsworth!
Review: Oh my...I cannot understand why Jewel wastes her time with music and all of that other stuff. Her obvious depth and range of pop-star talents actually WITHERS in comparison to the BLINDING BRILLIANCE of her free-verse poetry. She has a seemingly effortless command of metaphor and an understanding of the written word that is so COMPLETE that you will swear that some of these poems were dictated by God himself. Her imagery overruns with boundless inventive qualities. Her verse has the flow and melodicism of a MOZART SONATA. She also has a very nice set of JUGS.
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Summary: nice effort
Review: jewel should stick to singing. Her poetry isn't as bad as I was expecting, but it wasn't that great. She seemed to be stuck on theme, love, or rather a loss of love. Which is fine for some poems, but when all but two or three of your poems turn out to be sappy, broken-hearted whining, it's time to find something else. She had a lot of good ideas and lines but the total package was disappointing. The prologue was nice. And the paintings featured throughout the collection looked more or less like the same one, over and over.
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Summary: A fine recounting of Jewel's life, but not very poetic
Review: It's certainly interesting to read about Jewel's life in Alaska, and her other experiences, but she should have done it in memoir form, because that's what almost all of her poems read like. Excepting the occasional obtuse simile or inscrutable metaphor thrown in, her poems are plainly written prose, with line breaks. A poem, being a short work should have, if not rhyme or meter, then powerful images, flowing lines, a play on words. Something to catch the reader's eye. Jewel gives us a few lines of broken prose, then moves on. It's slightly informative, but little else.
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Summary: a great book of poetry
Review: i just bought it & i think it is great. containing such inspirational poems and some serious topics to which i think is great for teens. not only teens but 4 everybody who can understand. i think it's one of the best books ever. and i would want for a volume 2.
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Summary: If you like the book, you'll love the audio version!
Review: A Night without Armor is an awsome collection of poems written by a true spirit. What makes the experience even more inspirational is hearing Jewel read the poems that she has written and the way they flow from her mouth. If you enjoyed the book in the least, I suggest you buy the audio version which makes all her poems come to life.
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Summary: I was interested
Review: I've never been a big Jewel fan. A friend of mine had the book sitting out and I grabbed it and read the whole thing in one sitting. I was quite impressed with the way she writes. A Night Without Armor is a book I would recommend to others interested in poetry. She's blunt and straight to the point, which is a very good thing. Anyone could enjoy her writing. She gives insight into the world around her and doesn't hold back. My favorites include P.S. and Sara Said. She's honest, that's what I guess I liked.
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Summary: A Honest, Unbiased Review
Review: I admit I'm a Jewel fan, but I'm not directly stepping up to her defense here. I'm here to give a honest review. I'm going to tell you what's good and what's bad about Jewel's first poetry collection "A Night Without Armor".First, I've to tell you about her book. It is a collection of Jewel's poems. Her poems about rescuing a newborn calf in the midnight snow, listening to wolves howl in a canyon storm, and racing naked out of a sauna of a winter evening bring us more useful experience than kid poets usually have to share. Besides, she's writing about true love, second thoughts, and broken relationships. When I was reading the reviews posted I couldn't help noticing the many comments that insisted the book was bad because of it's autobiographical nature. Also, I have found that many of these reviews are very critical of the nature of this book. Most of Jewel's poems don't rhyme, even include incomplete sentences. But those prejudiced people who hate this book just because it doesn't fit your criteria of poetry is definitely not a good argument. I ain't a poet. I'm just an amatuer of poetry. I've been writing poetry just for three months and I really into rhyming poems. (Here's one of my rhyming poem. Title: Angel Standing by - You move along in majesty, Your potent presence conquers me...With all your perilous appeal, As dark as night, as strong as steel.) But I do appreciate people (including Jewel) who've talented in writing free verses (She reveals herself as an accomplished free-verse poet). As we know, Shakespeare is really good at meter. But do you think we've to write like him? Definitely not, everyone has their own style on writing. Someone critized that Jewel is published not because she is a fabulous writer or has anything interesting to say or even understands the basic craft of poetry, but simply because she is famous. But I don't think any famous singer can publish poetry. Her popularity may have effects about her publishing, but the main reason of her poems got published is her poetry has high quality. As most of those poems were written in her late youth, about experiences that most have not yet had at this age. I think the negative criticism I've read is overly harsh. Her words may not suit everyone's taste but her words are honest, beautiful, and introspective, and they are reflective of her life. I doubt that the so-called better writers that reviewed this book have lived a life half as remarkable as hers or have written anything half as insightful. The reason for writing poetry is to let readers know more about the world as well as a tool of self expression. Reading her words and listening to them, her poetry is not just a self expression. Her poems have teaching behind, the words help you understand more about your life. I think most of the famous poets weren't famous when they were young. I don't wanna to be harsh, but those so-called better writers, you can dig your childhood poems out of old moving cartons, read them, shake your heads and wonder, "What was I thinking?" We should all be thankful there aren't a million copies of those early efforts floating around the world. Honestly, I've found some of her poems are in low quality. They're a little bland, sad, or even disturbing, just like some of her songs. I think Jewel is improving, maybe one day she'll be a great poet, I can find some good poems in this book but no great ones. But overall, I did enjoy reading this book. Once again, it's not a book for you to critize heavily but to inspire you and as a motivation for you to think. I recommend "A Night Without Armor" to you, no matter you're her fan or not. It is a talented artist's portrait of what makes us uniquely human.
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Summary: A question
Review: Is it bad poetry? Or is it not even poetry at all? I can't decide. But what I really want to know is -- how can so many people out there, who are intelligent enough to use a computer, be hoodwinked by this incompetence? And so I can't refrain, I need to ask the people who wrote in and said "This is my favorite book of poetry ever" or some such thing -- I have to ask this: please tell me: what other books of poetry have you read? What are you comparing it to? Anthony Varmint (a_varmint@hotmail.com)
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