No Matter the Wreckage
Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her.
Top-selling poet Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of work from the first decade of her career. Following the success of her breakout poem, "B", No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's skill for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects.
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No Matter the Wreckage
Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her.
Top-selling poet Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of work from the first decade of her career. Following the success of her breakout poem, "B", No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's skill for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects.
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No Matter the Wreckage

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Overview

Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her.
Top-selling poet Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of work from the first decade of her career. Following the success of her breakout poem, "B", No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's skill for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938912085
Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
Publication date: 11/10/2020
Pages: 143
Sales rank: 256,990
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sarah Kay is one of the top selling poets in America. From New York City, she has been performing her poetry since she was 14 years old. Sarah is perhaps best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference which garnered over 3 million online views. Sarah's first book "B" was a #1 Bestselling Poetry Book on Amazon and her other work has appeared in Pear Noir!, The Literary Bohemian, Damselfly Press, The Huffington Post and CNN.com. She is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE.

Read an Excerpt

“Love is not who you were expecting, love is not who you can predict. Maybe love is in New York City, already asleep; You are in California, Australia, wide awake. Maybe love is always in the wrong time zone. Maybe love is not ready for you. Maybe you are not ready for love. Maybe love just isn't the marrying type. Maybe the next time you see love is twenty years after the divorce, love is older now, but just as beautiful as you remembered. Maybe love is only there for a month. Maybe love is there for every firework, every birthday party, every hospital visit. Maybe love stays- maybe love can't. Maybe love shouldn't.

Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to,
And love leaves exactly when love must.
When love arrives, say, “Welcome. Make yourself comfortable.”
If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her.
Turn off the music, listen to the quiet, whisper,
“Thank you for stopping by.””

Table of Contents

I

Love Poem #137 15

Subway 16

The Oak Tree Speaks 17

The Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire 19

New York, June 2009 20

The First Poem in the Imaginary Book 22

Mrs. Bjbeiro 23

II

Montauk 29

My Parents on their Way Home from a Wedding 31

Slivers 32

Brother 34

Hands 36

III

Jellyfish 41

Evaporate 43

The Ladder 44

Bricklayer 45

Forest Fires 46

Poppy 48

Something We Don't Talk About, Part I 49

Dragons 50

Hand-Me-Downs 51

IV

Shosholoza 57

India Trio 60

Jetlag 62

Paws 63

The Shirt 65

Boom 66

Grace 67

V

Until 71

Scissors 72

Something We Don't Talk About, Part II 73

The Moves 74

Postcards 75

Hiroshima 77

VI

Extended Development 83

Questions and Answers, in No Particular Order 86

Loose Threads 87

Private Parts 88

Another Missing 90

The Call 91

Flight 93

VII

B 97

And Found 99

Winter Without You 100

Corey's Turn 101

Witness 103

Yolk 104

Accidents 105

VIII

Peacocks 111

On Being Prepared 114

On the Discomfort of Being in the Same Room as the Boy You Like 116

Here and Now 117

Open 118

A Place to Put Our Hands 119

Today's Poem 120

IX

Ghost Ship 125

Lightning 128

The Type 129

Astronaut 131

The Paradox 132

In the Event of an Emergency 133

Notes 137

Credits 141

Acknowledgments 142

About the Author 143

About the Illustrator 143

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