My Honest Poem

✍ Scribed by Jess Fiebig

• Book ID: 110817836
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 101 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781776710607

✦ Synopsis

A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. "at six, my mother's boyfriend forced his fat hairy hand inside my heart-shaped face for eating too many Fruit Bursts we bought a tube of them at BP wrapped individually in pastel wax papers which littered the backseat like sweet-smelling confetti his hand tasted of salt a metallic tang of rust the hot edge of petrol from the pump still lingering on his fingers" My Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma.