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Books that tear me to pieces and put me back together.
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items These are the books I turn to when I need to feel something real. Each one has hit me in a way I wasn’t ready for in the best possible way. They talk about love, loss, healing, mental health, identity, and everything in between.
This is a once in a generation book from a once in a generation poet. It's Angry and Honest And Unapologetic
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson, Paperback
a tender, raw, and intimate collection. It's not just poetry; it’s a companion for anyone navigating vulnerability or searching for hope.
Take Me with You - Button Poetry
Our Numbered Days is a gut-punch of a poetry collection—unapologetically honest, darkly humorous, and deeply human. This book. changed my perception of life in my early 20s
Our Numbered Days (Button Poetry): Hilborn, Neil
a minimalist exploration of pain, healing, love, and femininity. Told in spare, accessible language, the collection is both deeply personal and universally relatable.
Milk and Honey: Rupi Kaur
a powerful blend of vulnerability and strength, weaving social commentary with personal reflection.
Helium - Rudy Fransico
a meditative and soulful follow-up to Helium, exploring grief, resilience, and the quiet beauty in everyday life. It Made me cry more than once.
I'll Fly Away - Button Poetry
a visceral, poetic graphic novel that tackles the deep wounds of bullying with unflinching honesty. Told through raw verse and striking visuals, it captures the isolation, rage, and eventual healing of a boy marked by cruelty. It's heartbreaking, bra...
Stickboy by Shane L. Koyczan - Goodreads
Our Deathbeds Will Be Thirsty is a raw, soul-baring collection that explores the wreckage and resilience of being human. Blending poetry and prose, it moves through themes of heartbreak, mental illness, self-worth, and the complicated beauty of conne...
Our Deathbeds Will Be Thirsty - Shane Koyczan
Date & Time is a poignant, reflective collection that meditates on memory, identity, and the passage of time. Through spare, elegant language, it weaves stories of family, cultural heritage, and love—both found and lost. Each poem feels like a sn...
Time and Date
A Light Bulb Symphony is a vibrant and emotionally layered debut that pulses with the energy of the stage. The poems balance humor and heartbreak, tackling themes like anxiety, love, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. With clever wordplay...
A Light Bulb Symphony: Poems by Phil Kaye
smut psalm is a raw, aching collection that feels like a prayer whispered through grit teeth—unapologetically erotic, tender, and deeply human. It's a fearless exploration of desire, shame, and intimacy that leaves you breathless and baptized in its ...
THREE. "Smit with the love of sacred Song": Psalm Genres
I’d Rather Be Destroyed feels like reading your own intrusive thoughts but written better. It’s messy, emotional, and kind of feels like crying in a cool stranger’s bathroom at 2 a.m.—in the best way.
I'd Rather Be Destroyed
It’s soft, emotional, and kind of like texting your ex at 1 a.m.—but more poetic.
Where I Dry The Flowers
It’s giving soft rage, quiet grief, and the kind of lines you want to highlight but also pretend you didn’t feel.
Cottonmouth
reads like someone trying to heal with their whole chest and half a cigarette.
Toy Gun