You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. On March 3, 2011, she performed at the TED conference in Long Beach, California as part of a series entitled "Beauty, Imagination, Enchantment. She was a featured poet on HBO's "Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry Jam" in 2006, and that year she was also the youngest poet to compete in the National Poetry Slam. And I know we live in different worlds, and we're always really busy, but in my dreams you spin around me so fast, I always wake up dizzy.

Sarah Kay is definitely an astonishing poet and because she is under-appreciated in the book world, I feel that more should look into giving this book a read. Only so many into space, before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness. I felt very detached from the author and the themes while reading the poems, and I felt that the free-form didn't help convey the message she was trying to get accross. It took a few poems for me to get into No Matter The Wreckage and get used to the distinctive style of the poems and the poet’s voice.Poems as such, you would doubt, might not have translated well into written form, but it does so perfectly in a different perspective. Here are some of the poems from this collection performed by Sarah: (I highly recommend watching them! There are some poems that I felt too intimate for me to be reading, like I was invading her privacy, but that's how Sarah Kay is.

It seems like these poets sometimes just put a bunch of random stuff together, punctuate it with spaces and almost dare, challenge you to finally yell "What is this?She is perhaps best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference, which garnered two standing ovations and has been seen over three million times online. On the other hand, the chance to see the poems on paper provided an opportunity to dig into them in a way that listening does not quite offer and even on the poems I had listened to, I noticed components I had not before.

Both fresh and wise, Kay’s poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her.NEW YORK, United States — After a long awaited compilation of 10 years, Sarah Kay finally publishes her collection of poems which can only be described as brutally raw, naked and hopeful, which is aptly titled No Matter the Wreckage. One minute you are in India tasting the sweetness of mangoes, the next you are in Hiroshima staring at the metaphorical rubble.

If you have not seen Sarah Kay perform any of her poems, check her out on YouTube, she's a great performer). Summary: Following the success of her breakout poem, "B," Sarah Kay releases her debut collection of poetry featuring work from the first decade of her career. She is unafraid to bring you into her world, and bares her soul for the world to see, and that it is alright to be imperfect. This collection's transformative helps readers to find a sanctuary of words that uplift your spirit and ignite imagination. No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay’s knack for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects, among other curious topics.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.