I Am Her Tribe

Thank you to Danielle Doby, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “I Am Her Tribe" for an honest review.

A brand new voice (for me) on the confessional poetry scene, of which my heart has whole-sale skipped ship and left the shore, never to return to me with, this was an instant must request for me. A collective of women all across Instagram banding together through poetry and shared sentiment in the "#MeToo" and "#ImWithHer" generations, making its mark on a new platform (after several artists of the genre have spread through Pinterest, Tumblr, and Twitter) is definitely a place I want to be watching and reading.

The photos are incredibly moving, and the show more poetry will at times make you smile and at other points feel like it is your own heart breaking through the words written by another. There is raw pain and staggering magic, both in the looking back and in the walking forward (into healing, or war, or life, or love, or selfhood) in this book, and I will be following this artist in her future endeavors. show less

These poems read like prayers and affirmations. I read them out loud to myself as a comfort, as an incantation. These poems are spells and strength and wisdom. I am enamored and uplifted by them. 😍