 Hey guys it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm looking super extra and I'm going to be bringing you guys a poetry collection no this is not what I'm doing and today I'm going to be bringing you guys another poetry recommendations video so let's jump right into it. That's not the way it goes. I am still waiting. Two poetry books today that I'm going to be talking about and first up here I have Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. So you may have seen this around this is a YA book that's been floating around. The National Book Award finalist and this book is actually written in verse. It's about a boy and his brother gets killed and his book deals a lot with the gangs and rivals and vengeance and has a lot of those kind of topics surrounding it but he is going down the elevator to go down the floors to going to go kill the guy who kills his brother and as he's going down the elevator he gets some surprises along the way which is all I'm gonna say. It deals with like gun violence and it's just so interesting. It's like nothing like I've read before in terms of poetry but like for example I just really liked how it was told and it was absolutely beautiful and it said lots and lots of sirens howling cutting through the sounds of the city except the screams. The screams are always heard over everything even the sirens and it's just like I when I read this I couldn't stop reading it which oh my god so yeah I've read this on a way to the funeral which is really sad but it kept me distracted so kudos to that. Now this next one should probably not even be on this list but that is a note to South by Conor Franta and that is only because this book is not just a poetry collection. It has a bunch of topics and it talks about it's a memoir that talks about Conor's life and it has pictures in it but it also has poetry which is what I'm talking about today which this does have a lot of trigger warnings for depression so keep that in mind but Conor is just an absolutely beautiful human if you don't know he's a popular youtuber that's what he's most known as and he's just such a stunning human being inside and out so I love him so much in his work it's just so inspirational and the photos in it are absolutely stunning and like I can't like oh like oh and like let me try to find a poetry thing because when I lie awake long enough for the clock to tick over to a new day my heart beats faster as I begin to question what brings worth to life the scariest moments come when my eyes remain open to our empty of answers it's just stunning so I highly recommend this one as well here I'm going to be talking about sea of strangers by long leave this came out recently anything by this author before you kind of know what her collect like you kind of know what these collections revolve around if you've read from this author before but it just deals with love heartbreak all that sort of stuff just I have a poetry usually about but this is poetry and prose which I really enjoyed the pros in here but this has like a really nice prominent theme of like the sea in the ocean and waves and it's just so beautifully told and I really enjoyed that theme that it revolved around I thought it was like a really nice touch to like keep the poetry collection like together but this poem is called revenge that I'll read you so revenge when the battle is done and you think you have won don't dance on my great just yet if you are the moon then I in the sun I will not allow you to forget in my own time I'll take back what is mine for I'm not your friend and the dark of the night and the shifting tides I will come for you then look at that that is so good so I yes love this one as one that I don't know physically but that is this boy's a rainbow by champagne talked about a lot I did receive it for review a little while ago and I just loved it so much it came out in January and it's just I feel like it deserves hype and it's similar to milk and honey in the way that is formatted but it's about an LGBT relationship and heartbreak through that and it has illustrations in it it's just really beautiful and I don't have direct quotes because but I'll put like maybe photos up on the screen because I don't have the book physically but I want a physical copy so bad like soon as those come out like you bet I'm I'ma get that those are my poetry recommendations I believe this is like mine's fifth or fourth poetry recommendations video but if you like these let me know down below and any other recommendations that you'd like to see if you've read these or if you would like to I'll see y'all very soon bye