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title: "Afterlife Paperback – May 19, 2017"
brand: "melissa jennings"
price: "$121"
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# Afterlife Paperback – May 19, 2017

**Brand:** melissa jennings
**Price:** $121
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- **What is this?** Afterlife Paperback – May 19, 2017 by melissa jennings
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## Customer Reviews

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    this was quite a read
  

*by L***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2017*

It's not often I get to read someone's thoughts written down in raw free form and wonder where is the hope and light in this? And when I find something light after reading something foreboding, only to read a few more darkness, I think...when will this dark and light cycle end?For others, it's an endless loop. Some of us, find an opening and others either, live in denial of this or oblivious to its existence.For this particular collection, I am amazed that in this loop, the author found a rope to pull themselves out to freedom. This was quite a read. This was a lot to take on and I'm amazed that Melissa was able to take all this emptiness, all this emotion and purge it out this collection. Bravo.*** REMINDER that I use Goodreads rating. 4 Stars means I really like it. Because of the heaviness of the subject matter, I don't know if I'll read this collection again - my 5 stars are my reread pile - BUT I'm excited to read more from this author. I think it's brilliant and they need to bump up their release date for their second collection, in my opinion.***

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    This chapbook is a small collection of poems about love, and finding it after a time of darkness
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017*

This chapbook is a small collection of poems about love, and finding it after a time of darkness; self-love after a period of abuse. One line that summarizes this message is “Sometimes/ We must fight/ The darkness/To understand/ The light” (page 4, location 49).I love modern poetry. Poetry is poetry, whether it’s a centuries-old sestina or free-verse from Tumblr. Jennings’ form is of the latter, while her command of the language is as poetic as the former. My favorite lines include:“My sadness is politics…” (page 12, location 115)“Do not love these gardens,/ If you despise the dirt” (page 25, location 213)“Crystallising my storms…” (page 35, location 257)“Poetry tells me:/ There are different kinds of light” (page 104, location 719)However, my own taste for modern poetry is picky. While I love and support modern poetry, it needs to have that balance between raw emotion and new-ness – I am not a fan of clichés or obvious statements. This chapbook only has one instance of the latter, when the poem on page 73 and location 469 states “I am feeling a lot right now.” Within the context of the poem, this line makes sense; on its own, the statement is the sole reason poets write poems – because poets feel a lot.I felt like I could interact with her poems – in one instance, a poem (page 68, location 433) gave a question: “40 years ignoring yourself. How many minutes is that?” I got curious and brought out my calculator and responded with 21,024,000. Twenty-one million and twenty-four thousand minutes. This exchange made me feel like I was part of the poem, piecing together a puzzle alongside the author.Occasional poems contain the use of braces – those {squiggly brackets} which, when the words in the braces came together, created a poem within the poem. I absolutely loved this! One such example is: “I cannot tell {if I am}/{Delirious} or drunk. I cannot tell if {you are}/ Medicine or {poison}” (page 77, location 491).I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys poetry.(Please note that my four-star rating is based on the Goodreads ranking, where four stars means "really liked it" instead of the Amazon four-star rating of "I like it.")

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    for lovers of empowering dark poetry
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2017*

Wow!!! Just wow!! This is an amazing debut collection. The author definitely took me on a ride with this one. If you love dark poetry that is empowering, you'll have to pick this one up for sure. Melissa Jennings talks about mental health, self-love, recovery, and so much more. Although I consider this dark poetry, they definitely uplift the reader to light and accepting the light that we are. AMAZING! And I cannot wait to read more by this author!

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