Interpreting emotions is hard sometimes. It’s okay if you need someone else’s words to help you understand how you feel. - poetry is the language of emotions” I've haven't read much poetry but this was amazing. I don't know how else to say it but I loved it all. But I wish Whitney the best and can’t see if she will develop her talent! The message is beautiful, of course, it’s about heartbreak and healing, but I feel like this wasn’t it. Whitney Hanson nimmt einen mit auf eine Reise, voll mit Höhen und Tiefen, Liebeskummer und Selbstfindung. Ich liebe ihre Gedichte und ihren Schreibstil sehr und habe auch schon ein paar neue Lieblingsgedichte<3

The way her words harmonized with my soul, this book has become my favorite poetry book I have ever read. Hands down! (and I’ve read a decades worth.)

I enjoy how this book seems to have a clear relatable voice while touching on tough topics and also having extremely poetic elements. It is almost like reading a diary of her life experiences that she just so happened to turn into poems but they also feel so intentional as well. Sometimes with poetry, I have seen that authors focus too much on the language sounding pretty but they don’t say anything (at least that I can understand as a person reading for entertainment without deconstructing each line which is what some of the poets want, it just is not my favorite form of poetry so my opinion is a little bias). Whitney Hanson can create such amazing pieces that while sounding poetic and beautiful, have a voice that is easy to understand and wants to say something to the reader. She uses simple word choice overall, which blows my mind because I always try to “sound like a poet” when I write. This collection shows that you don’t always need “big fancy words” to create good works, even though she does have great use of word choice throughout her pieces. She wants the reader to relate and be able to feel what she is saying in her work. I believe that the voice she chose allows for that throughout her collection. This book is written in 4 parts. Losing, Lost, Flying and Home. Each part is filled with moments and feelings that everyone goes through. They teach us how to understand lost, grief and to be loved not only by someone else but by yourself. I guess this wasn’t just my cup of tea. I wish there was mention that it’s not only poetry BUT ALSO quotes / poetry prose, because one sentence is not poetry for me. Losing people you love is hard but Whitney poems have a warm way of making you feel that its okay and it going to be okay, that you will make it out at the end of the tunnel. urn:oclc:record:1391660530 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier home0000hans Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2tcg8n343n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9798754263956 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001275 Openlibrary_edition

it’s funny to me how everyday life mixes with the internal world each of us exists in. in the notes on my phone is a mixture of my inner demons and my grocery lists.” I loved how the author associated weather with emotions. And how, in the end, she decided to end with climate instead of sunny.my biggest fear is that we were meant to be. what if we were wrong, and we missed out on all the ways we were supposed to love each other. what if timing and space was just an excuse that we used to separate two hearts that beat simultaneously. maybe we are going to live the rest of our lives watching the wrong story unfold.” Home by Whitney Hanson has left me speechless (in a good way!). It's a beautifully written poetry collection that hurts in all the right places.

I'm falling in love with poetry more and more as the time passes and, as I follow Whitney on TikTok for some time now, I absolutely adore her poetry and her way of playing with words and expressing emotions. This book broke my heart in the most beautiful way - I did not cry externally, but for sure I cried internally. It put into words a lot of the feelings that I've been dealing with lately and some that I've not reached yet. And I've loved that - throughout the book, we go from a very dark and sad place to a more bright and hopeful one, and this new place didn't appear because the author found someone or something new, it appeared because the writer is finding herself again. And that is the most beautiful message that we can get, that a better future is inside us, not somewhere else. what hurts the most are memories we didn’t make the pictures i had of our future i spent an eternity waking up to you tell me, how do i forget things that never happened?” Hanson intrigued me with her poetry readings on TikTok and she convinced me to buy this book. The poems are written in a Rupi Kaur-esque way, but instead of enjoying 5-10% of the poems in Kaur's bundles, the poems in Hanson's "Home" resonated/moved/intrigued me about 40-50% of the time. From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems interpreting emotions is hard sometimes, it’s okay if you need someone else’s words to understand how you feel”unfortunately I didn't enjoy this book half as much as I expected. I discovered the author through her insta posts and I really enjoyed the poems I heard there unfortunately the ones I already knew also were the ones I liked the most in this book and the rest couldn't keep up.