This collection is divided into six major sections: (1) the invitation, (2) the aching, (3) the nectar, (4) the rise, (5) the sacred, and (6) the alchemy. Most of the poems speak about the self – its unraveling, becoming, being rather than being part of her tribe, as the title suggests. I am unfamiliar with Danielle Doby, but the title of her poetry collection spoke to me. Book photos taken by me and edited using an iPhone app. Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing (2018) I chanced upon this poetry collection in our library while trying to find relevant titles, and I felt that this book that ostensibly celebrates belonging to a tribe of womanity is perfect for our theme. We have just recently launched our reading theme for April – June: Sisterhood and Female Bonds in Literature – as we continue to celebrate #WomenReadWomen2019.
I am glad to be joining the Poetry Friday Community again this week, with special thanks to Karen Edmisten for hosting this week. Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC).Literary Voyage Around The World Reading Challenge 2018.
#WomenReadWomen2019 (A Year Of Women Reading Women) Reading Progress.#ReadIntl2020 (Year Of International Literature) Reading Progress.#DecolonizeBookshelves2022 Reading Progress.#DecolonizeReading2023 Reading Progress.sitting on the kitchen floor with the people who know you best, in-love spaces, gently reminding you that you are never alone.
Too, it is the top of the mountain spaces, the light rising through the curtain spaces, the 2 a.m. It is the lonely spaces, the low-lit spaces, the dark corners, and the rooms we don't often go. And this is Danielle's heart-work. And so, her offering is the words unsaid, in the spaces we need it most. And how you choose to share, that is your heart-work. The lineage of women before her have always said to her in no uncertain terms, that the time to be brave, is now.
In this has grown a truth she could no longer write just in the margins, as a maybe, or a sometime, but rather as air, as water, as basic survival. She began to write these words, those spaces, onto paper. Where others may hear the conversation by way of what was said next, Danielle has always heard the space between, and all the words left unsaid. In the way they can move a moment forward, or pull a moment to a slow stop. The everyday moments, and the extraordinary moments, have always made the most sense to Danielle in words.
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