A Night Without Armor

by JEWEL

• ISBN13: 9780061073625
• ISBN10: 0061073628
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jewel Kilcher was Born And Raised in Alaska. She Presently Lives in San Diego, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
As a Child I Walked	p. 1
The Bony Ribs of Adam	p. 2
Wild Horse	p. 3
Bukowski's Widow	p. 4
You Tell Me	p. 6
Paramount, NY, 9:34 A.M.	p. 7
It Has Been Long	p. 8
Too Many Nights	p. 9
I Look at Young Girls Now	p. 10
Seattle	p. 11
Saved from Myself	p. 12
Taking the Slave	p. 13
Sun Bathing	p. 14
Red Roof Inn, Boston	p. 15
So Just Kiss Me	p. 16
Second Thoughts in Columbus, Ohio	p. 17
Cautious	p. 18
The Dark Bells	p. 19
The Inertia of a Lonely Heart	p. 21
Collect Beads of Night	p. 22
Communion	p. 23
Love Poem	p. 24
Father of a Deaf Girl	p. 26
Dionne and I	p. 27
IB	p. 28
The Slow Migration of Glaciers	p. 30
Tai Pei	p. 32
Tai Pei 2	p. 33
Tai Pei 3	p. 34
In the South of England Somewhere	p. 36
1966	p. 37
A Couple Sitting on a Bench	p. 38
Envy	p. 39
Pretty	p. 40
Those Certain Girls	p. 41
Sausages	p. 42
Though I am 8	p. 43
Dylan	p. 44
Vincent Said	p. 46
Camouflage	p. 47
Sara Said	p. 48
Parking Lot	p. 50
Coffee Shop	p. 51
I Say to You Idols	p. 52
Steady Yourself	p. 53
Awaken, Love	p. 55
Gather Yourself	p. 57
You	p. 58
Bleary eyed	p. 59
I Miss Your Touch	p. 60
Night Falls	p. 61
We Have Been Called	p. 62
Underage	p. 65
Grimshaw	p. 66
A Slow Disease	p. 68
All the Words	p. 69
You Are Not	p. 70
The Strip 1	p. 72
The Strip 2	p. 73
Shush	p. 74
I Am Not from Here	p. 75
Infatuation	p. 77
The Fall	p. 78
Long Has a Cloak	p. 79
Mercy	p. 80
Compass	p. 81
Freedom	p. 82
Road Spent	p. 83
Christmas in Hawaii	p. 84
Spoiled	p. 85
Red Light District, Amsterdam	p. 86
Lovers for Lilly	p. 87
Lemonade	p. 89
We Talk	p. 90
Spivey Leaks	p. 92
Forgetful	p. 93
Lost	p. 94
Still Life	p. 95
I Don't Suppose Raindrops	p. 96
Sometimes	p. 98
Blanketed by a Citrus Smile	p. 99
The Road	p. 101
I Guess What I Wanted Was	p. 102
Insecurity	p. 103
I Am Patient	p. 104
The Things You Fear	p. 105
The Chase	p. 106
Fragile	p. 107
I'm Writing to Tell You	p. 108
And So to Receive You	p. 110
Fat	p. 112
Junky	p. 113
Austin, TX, Sheraton Hotel, 2 A.M.	p. 114
I Keep Expecting You To	p. 115
P.S.	p. 116
Gold Fish	p. 117
New Moon	p. 118
Someone to Know Me	p. 120
Traffic	p. 121
Home	p. 123
After the Divorce	p. 124
May Brought Longer Days	p. 126
Crazy Cow	p. 127
Sauna	p. 129
The Tangled Roots of Willows	p. 130
Goodness (A Poem for Shane)	p. 131
Wolves in the Canyon	p. 133
God Exists Quietly	p. 134
Miracle	p. 136
Afterword	p. 137
List of Illustrations	p. 140
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