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    A Night Without Armor: Poems
    A Night Without Armor: Poems
    A Night Without Armor: Poems
    Ebook163 pages

    A Night Without Armor: Poems

    By Jewel

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    One of the most respected artists in popular music today, Jewel is much more than a music industry success with her debut album selling more than 10 million copies.

    Before her gifted songwriting comes an even more individual art: Poetry.

    Now available in paperback, A Night without Armor highlights the poetry of Jewel taken from her journals which are both intimate and inspiring, to be embraced and enjoyed.

    Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words to record, to discover, and to reflect.

    In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy. She delves into matters of the home, the comfort of family, the beauty of Alaska, and the dislocation of divorce.

    Frank and honest, serious and suddenly playful, A Night Without Armor is a talented artist's intimate portrait of what makes us uniquely human.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 19, 2010
    ISBN9780062029225
    A Night Without Armor: Poems
    Author

    Jewel

    A bestselling writer of poetry and prose, Jewel is also an actress and performer. She has recorded four bestselling albums and also starred in Ang Lee's film Ride with the Devil. Her first book, A Night Without Armor, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in California.

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    • 2/5
      This collection is a little much.
    • 3/5
      Interesting little book by Jewel, yes Jewel the singer. A collection of her poems that cover anything from growing up as a little girl in Alaska to the red light district of Tai Pei. Through her poems she tells stories of growing up in Alaska. Her look for love and being in relationships but her insecurities. Another reviewer noted that some lead you to want to know more about her or that part of her life and then you jump to a completely different area or time period. But all and all a nice collection of contemporary poetry.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! It is hilarious. Here's my favorite line: "Can you imagine how quiet a plane crash would be if you were deaf?" Lolzers, Jewel. What else would be quiet if you were deaf? *folds hands under chin*

      In case you were wondering, this was the second selection for our short-lived Very Bad Book Club. I was the only person motivated enough to actually read it, tragically.
    • 4/5
      A Night Without Armor was beautify written. Although this book was written in all poems it shared a story. The true story was like a beat < the underline pulse of the music and the pulse is the story and the music is the poems. In this book i enjoyed that it showed/explained every detail and every emotion what i believe is needed in poems. Also that she got her point through but holding back on it so u really had to pay attention to it. What i didn't like about this book was personal some of the poems had no meaning or they just didn't make any scene. Also the titles of the poems werent that great ether, it was most likely the first stanza of the poem or it didnt have to do with the poem. The way that she judged the young girls in her poems were really mean and she really didnt need to be mean about them and what they look like/ dress like. That is not for her to be judging because i know many people that dress different and they arent as bad as she makes them seem.
    • 5/5
      great book to read
    • 4/5
      She's not a great poet. I think she's a better singer, but she has some pretty good lines in this book.
    • 3/5
      The singer/song writer Jewel makes a descent attempt in her book of poetry. Honest and to the heart her poems cover relationships, family, her life on the road and her home of Alaska. While many of these poems are short and simplistic others show deep thought and feelings of an accomplished poet.
    • 2/5
      nice poetry from a girl who loves alaska.
    • 1/5
      Stick to song writing.
    • 4/5
      There are some really great poems in this book. I've had it for several years, and still pick it up off the shelf.
    • 4/5
      I actually liked this book. Some of her poems were less than exciting but some were amazing. It's a short collection but still interesting to read.

    Book preview

    A Night Without Armor - Jewel

    As a Child I Walked

    As a child I walked

    with noisy fingers

    along the hemline

    of so many meadows

    back home

    Green fabric

    stretched out

    shy earth

    shock of sky

    I’d sit on logs like pulpits

    listen to the sermon

    of sparrows

    and find god in Simplicity,

    there amongst the dandelion

    and thorn

    The Bony Ribs of Adam

    I left the bony ribs of Adam

    for the fruit

    of my own

    personal desire

    Its scent still heavy

    upon my flesh

    my absence still

    thorn

    to his side

    But now how my belly

    hollows and aches

    craving seed

    craving kisses

    but outside the road hisses

    and I find myself

    packing girlishness

    in an old leather bag

    love stepping lightly

    away from the door

    Wild Horse

    I’d like to call you my wild horse

    and feed you silver sage

    I’d like to paint my poems

    with desert tongued clay

    across

    your back

    and ride you savagely

    as the sweet and southern wind

    through a green and wild Kentucky

    I’d like to make you my secret sun

    blazing dark and red in the orchards

    and I would steal away

    to watch the way

    your silver belly bends

    and bows beneath me

    I’d make you my wings

    in the foothills of Montana

    my lover in the oceans of the world

    I’d make you my many calico children

    and scatter you

    across

    the green memories of home

    I’d be your hungry Valley

    and sow your golden fields of wheat

    in my womb

    Bukowski’s Widow

    My prince has slipped!

    and his face has turned

    to shadow

    his tongue no longer strong

    but gray (how sad!)

    it used to be so full

    of spit and roses

    My prince the stars have

    fallen from your crown

    And I can not fathom

    their

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