I guess this wasn’t just my cup of tea. I wish there was mention that it’s not only poetry BUT ALSO quotes / poetry prose, because one sentence is not poetry for me. This book is written in 4 parts. Losing, Lost, Flying and Home. Each part is filled with moments and feelings that everyone goes through. They teach us how to understand lost, grief and to be loved not only by someone else but by yourself.

I enjoy how this book seems to have a clear relatable voice while touching on tough topics and also having extremely poetic elements. It is almost like reading a diary of her life experiences that she just so happened to turn into poems but they also feel so intentional as well. Sometimes with poetry, I have seen that authors focus too much on the language sounding pretty but they don’t say anything (at least that I can understand as a person reading for entertainment without deconstructing each line which is what some of the poets want, it just is not my favorite form of poetry so my opinion is a little bias). Whitney Hanson can create such amazing pieces that while sounding poetic and beautiful, have a voice that is easy to understand and wants to say something to the reader. She uses simple word choice overall, which blows my mind because I always try to “sound like a poet” when I write. This collection shows that you don’t always need “big fancy words” to create good works, even though she does have great use of word choice throughout her pieces. She wants the reader to relate and be able to feel what she is saying in her work. I believe that the voice she chose allows for that throughout her collection. And this book, as much as I wanted to like it, I really couldn't. It was just boring and disappointing. I feel that it's just the second version of "Home", which I also read, but that one I wouldn't even call poetry - it was more like a diary and love advices, than poems.

Right now , reach over and take your own hand , you are solid . You are steady . You are holding on to the one person that will never leave you . Who will not walk away .

Interpreting emotions is hard sometimes. It’s okay if you need someone else’s words to help you understand how you feel. - poetry is the language of emotions” Hanson intrigued me with her poetry readings on TikTok and she convinced me to buy this book. The poems are written in a Rupi Kaur-esque way, but instead of enjoying 5-10% of the poems in Kaur's bundles, the poems in Hanson's "Home" resonated/moved/intrigued me about 40-50% of the time. The way her words harmonized with my soul, this book has become my favorite poetry book I have ever read. Hands down! (and I’ve read a decades worth.)

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unfortunately I didn't enjoy this book half as much as I expected. I discovered the author through her insta posts and I really enjoyed the poems I heard there unfortunately the ones I already knew also were the ones I liked the most in this book and the rest couldn't keep up. interpreting emotions is hard sometimes, it’s okay if you need someone else’s words to understand how you feel” it is hard to see the line between I care for you and I will put your needs before mine until my feet are blistered from racing to catch you every time you fall Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-07-13 22:26:27 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40603804 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Home by Whitney Hanson has left me speechless (in a good way!). It's a beautifully written poetry collection that hurts in all the right places.

urn:oclc:record:1391660530 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier home0000hans Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2tcg8n343n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9798754263956 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001275 Openlibrary_edition This book felt like a big warm hug on your saddest day. Some poems felt like they were written just for me. This collection also does an amazing job of using metaphors throughout the pieces. The collection has a clear theme of using weather metaphors and figurative language that begins from the title and the cover art. While each poem doesn’t mention weather specifically, there is often at least a connection that can be made between the topic at hand and some sort of weather. The figurative language also lends itself so well to the imagery she can create in these pieces. She takes intangible things like emotions and turns them into tangible things like weather. One reason why I love poetry is because it can do things with words that some other works just can’t do. I think that the topics in which she chose and the language she used to present them do just that. I am incredibly impressed by what she can accomplish in this collection. my biggest fear is that we were meant to be. what if we were wrong, and we missed out on all the ways we were supposed to love each other. what if timing and space was just an excuse that we used to separate two hearts that beat simultaneously. maybe we are going to live the rest of our lives watching the wrong story unfold.” I'm falling in love with poetry more and more as the time passes and, as I follow Whitney on TikTok for some time now, I absolutely adore her poetry and her way of playing with words and expressing emotions. This book broke my heart in the most beautiful way - I did not cry externally, but for sure I cried internally. It put into words a lot of the feelings that I've been dealing with lately and some that I've not reached yet. And I've loved that - throughout the book, we go from a very dark and sad place to a more bright and hopeful one, and this new place didn't appear because the author found someone or something new, it appeared because the writer is finding herself again. And that is the most beautiful message that we can get, that a better future is inside us, not somewhere else.

I loved how the author associated weather with emotions. And how, in the end, she decided to end with climate instead of sunny. sometimes love isn’t the fall. It is the time you spend sitting on the edge of the cliff learning each others souls.” From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems Je la suivais sur tiktok et plusieurs de ses vidéos m’avaient touchées. Je n’ai pas été déçue de découvrir sa plume. Losing people you love is hard but Whitney poems have a warm way of making you feel that its okay and it going to be okay, that you will make it out at the end of the tunnel.But I wish Whitney the best and can’t see if she will develop her talent! The message is beautiful, of course, it’s about heartbreak and healing, but I feel like this wasn’t it. and “A first collection of poetry from a 20-year-old university student and “–Publisher’s description. Home by Whitney Hanson – eBook Details I've haven't read much poetry but this was amazing. I don't know how else to say it but I loved it all. Whitney Hanson nimmt einen mit auf eine Reise, voll mit Höhen und Tiefen, Liebeskummer und Selbstfindung. Ich liebe ihre Gedichte und ihren Schreibstil sehr und habe auch schon ein paar neue Lieblingsgedichte<3