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For fans of Rupi Kaur, Lang Leav, and Amanda Lovelace comes the third and best selling collection of poetry from Emily Juniper. winner of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Award. Things I Learned in the Night (winner of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Award) is a beautiful, raw poetry collection and a tribute to young love in a society that so often tries to invalidate it. In this collection, Juniper explores love, heartbreak, as well as the seeds of her questioning her own sexuality. Like a worn blanket, a bad hand of cards, or flour into egg. I fold into you easily as if we belong under on top of all over one another. –Fold We grow round and supple with age– a little thicker in the thighs, a bit rounder in the middle. We are so full, yet we look in the mirror and try to convince ourselves we’re not pretty anymore because the magazines tell us our soft and our stretch marks aren’t beautiful. But go to the mango tree, seek out a fruit, and tell me you won’t pick the fullest, ripest one. –Ripe
Published: Oct 23, 2020
|Est. Pages: 89
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