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.
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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Reviews for A Night Without Armor
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This collection is a little much.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I 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. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A 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.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5great book to read
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She's not a great poet. I think she's a better singer, but she has some pretty good lines in this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 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.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5nice poetry from a girl who loves alaska.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Stick to song writing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There are some really great poems in this book. I've had it for several years, and still pick it up off the shelf.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I 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