Read this book. 🤍✨ her voice, her life, her story deserves to be heard, cherished, and remembered.
Beautiful poetry and story, woven and arranged and told in a way that will stick with me for a long time. An unfolding of a life. I loved the way the poems were artistically put onto the page too. So much I could say. But her words are what matters here. Read this book. 🤍✨ #poetry
pickSo this collection of poems represents the Marshall Islands. So beautifully written and she really touched my heart with her words describing her life as a Marshallese daughter. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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pickThese poems were just so beautiful. This collection really captured me. I love how she speaks of her experiences as a Marshallese person. These poems helped me go beyond knowing about the Marshall Islands to feeling the impact of what it is to be from the Marshall Islands dealing with fallout, cancer, climate change, racism, and life. While I can never truly feel that truth, Jetnil-Kijiner has helped me come closer to understanding.
pickI read this for the #ReadHarder challenge category of a book published before 2019 with fewer than 100 ratings on goodreads. It is a book of poetry by a woman from the Marshall Islands. The environmental activist poetry at the end and the poetry about the history of the islands (especially US nuclear testing) were very powerful.
My literary souvenir from my Hawaiian 🌺 vacation: the first book of poems ever published by a Marshallese author. Very cool that a female poet is the first. I meant to take a picture of it with a sandy or lush green background, but it will have to settle for the relative brown of the Midwest. #poetry #postcolonial #postcolonialliterature #femalepoets #neweyes
Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter | 
