Every Word You Cannot Say
Paperback – Illustrated, March 5, 2019
Andrews McMeel Publishing · Paperback · March 5, 2019
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- Who it’s for
- A quiet, direct invitation to find words for pain, beauty, and what goes unsaid.
- Themes
- Finding words for difficult feelings, Pain and vulnerability, Love through communication
- Genres
- Inspirational Poetry, Love Poetry, Poetry About Death
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*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.* **I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, “this is beautiful,” when no one else can see what you see. Or, “Here, this is where the pain is.”
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But some part of you knows, the truth about the words you cannot say is that they only hurt until you say them. They only hurt until the person who needs to hear them, hears them. Because we are human, and the closest we’ve ever come to showing each other who we really are, and how we love, is with words. So I’m going to try to say to you here, what I wish you’d say to me too. Please. Listen. We can change things. Here.
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A quiet, direct invitation to find words for pain, beauty, and what goes unsaid.
Come here for
- Poetry for the things that are hard to say aloud.
Expect
- A direct address that treats words as a way to be seen and heard.
Where it sits
| Love Poetry | 81% |
|---|---|
| Inspirational Poetry | 44% |
| Poetry About Death | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Poetry About Death
- Love Poetry
- Inspirational Poetry
- Authors
- Iain S. Thomas
- Publisher
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Published
- March 5, 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Finding words for difficult feelings · Pain and vulnerability · Love through communication
- Reading lane
- Poetry About Death