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Today Means Amen Paperback – February 2, 2016

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Vivid, courageous, and candid, the poetry of Sierra deMulder speaks straight to the heart.

Dear you:
Whoever you are,
However you got here,
This is exactly where you are supposed to be.
This moment has waited its whole life for you.

These are the opening lines of "Today Means Amen," YouTube star Sierra deMulder’s immensely powerful and virally popular poem, which lends its title to this collection. Like her fellow Millennial poets Tyler Knot Gregson, Clementine von Radics, and Lang Leav, Sierra has the gift of speaking directly to the reader. “Today Means Amen” has become an anthem of sorts to thousands, who find themselves reflected in its pain, its fierceness, its tenderness — but also in its triumphant culminating refrain:

 

You made it
You made it
You made it
Here.

The poems in Sierra's new book explore the rocky terrains of love, family, and womanhood with this same remarkable honesty and generosity. Today Means Amen brings this important young poet's work to an even broader audience.
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  4. Publication date
    February 2, 2016
  5. Dimensions
    7.99 x 5 x 0.27 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    144947411X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1449474119
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Sierra DeMulder is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, 2009 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational “Best Female Poet”, and recipient of a 2014 McKnight Fellowship. Her work has been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, The Advocate, and more. DeMulder is curriculum director of the Gustavus Adolphus College Institute of Spoken Word and Poetry Slam, an annual writing summer camp for high school students, and a co-founder of Button Poetry, the largest YouTube channel for poetry in the world. She regularly tours, performing at high schools, colleges, prisons, churches, and homeless shelters.

 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing (February 2, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 144947411X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449474119
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.99 x 5 x 0.27 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 112 ratings

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Sierra DeMulder is an internationally-recognized poet, educator, and podcast host. She is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, a five-time published author (The Bones Below, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, We Slept Here, Today Means Amen, and Ephemera), and the co-host of Just Break Up, a globally popular advice podcast that has been downloaded more than 4 million times. Sierra lives in upstate New York with her wife and daughter.

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Ryan Syrek
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow.
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2016
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I have said for years, and this book confirms, Sierra DeMulder is one of the most important voices in modern American poetry. Her willingness to lay bare the most vulnerable edges of her soul is only exceeded in beauty by her delicate, graceful descriptive abilities. From the car-crash painful, jarring confrontations of sexual passion to the light-handed ease of her bond with her young niece, it's hard to go more than 2-3 pages without putting the book down to simply breathe it all in. I could write a book about this book (for real), and can (and will) defend that there are no less than three 100% perfect poems inside. I've read it about 3 times now, and it will take many more times to know for sure, but this may well be one of my favorite books of poetry ever published. Also, none of this is hyperbole. For serious.
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Humancentered
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you....
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2018
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This is an amazing collection of poetry written from the depths of her experience. I was looking for a series of poems that I could use in helping me communicate with people who are struggling in every day situations. Some of the work in here will help me do exactly that. Those, along with the rest, will help me personally to take time and think about how my experiences have shaped me in relation to the myriad themes she unravels.

Easy to carry, but not light reading.
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Sara
5.0 out of 5 stars I keep needing to buy more copies because I give them away
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2018
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A wild woman poetess of the highest order, Sierra DeMulder’s writing does not disappoint- rather, it finds you in the darkness, lifts you into the light, and reminds you that the precious imperfections and impermanence of life are what make it worth living.

Do yourself a favor and get familiar with her work.
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Laura Crowther
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy Sierra's poetry first for yourself. Then buy another copy for everyone you love.
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2017
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Finding Sierra's poetry is the best gift I've ever given myself. She's hands down my favorite poet. This book does not leave my bedside table and has to be within arm's reach for days that I need comfort, something familiar, or just to know that I'm not alone.

I want to give this book to everyone I love. Sierra DeMulder is just. that. good.
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Moriah Conant
4.0 out of 5 stars Honesty
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2019
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If you are looking for honesty, you'll find it here. In her poems Sierra shares her story, and not only her own story, but also of those who touch her life. She touches on the fragile truth of her sister's eating disorder. She paints a picture of her mother in pain. Sierra's words reach the heart that is aching for relation.
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ncoun42
5.0 out of 5 stars I have purchased every title released by this phenomenal poet and could not recommend this volume more
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2016
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Sierra delivers verse after verse of personal and moving poetry. I have purchased every title released by this phenomenal poet and could not recommend this volume more. It is difficult to surpass her previous efforts, but this is does exactly that. From the titular Today Means Amen, life affirming and hopeful to A Thousand Pieces, a dark and moving tribute to a woman's abuse this collection of poems is inspired.
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CourtneyG
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this book for you and buy one for your worst enemy: he/she needs this too
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2016
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Sierra DeMulder combines every kind of heartbreak in Today Means Amen and somehow it heals parts of you that you didn't know you needed or wanted healed. She makes it very clear that the human spirit and the ability to express it are alive and well. Buy this book for you and buy one for your worst enemy: he/she needs this too.
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Brittany Harrell
5.0 out of 5 stars Her work should be required reading for all.
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2016
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I'm a HUGE fan of Sierra DeMulder. This collection is just as magical as all of her work.

I love how she is so honest and unrepentant. She will make you laugh and make you cry in the same poem (i.e.: For Livia, Age 8).

Her work should be required reading for all.
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Luisa
5.0 out of 5 stars touching, emotional, honest
Reviewed in Germany on August 20, 2017
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all of Sierra DeMulder's books just feel vulnerable, honest and like you can relate to it.
after watching all of her poetryslam videos I'm not disappointed!
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Jackie
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2017
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Beautiful
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