My Honest Poem
Author(s): Jess Fiebig
A moving account in poetry of one woman's pathway through violence and addiction. at six, my mother’s boyfriendforced his fat hairy handinside my heart-shaped facefor eating too many Fruit Bursts we bought a tube of them at BPwrapped individually in pastel wax paperswhich littered the backseatlike sweet-smelling confetti his hand tastedof salta metallic tang of rustthe hot edge of petrolfrom the pump still lingeringon 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Auckland University Press
- : Auckland University Press
- : 0.163293
- : 01 August 2020
- : .4 Inches X 5.75 Inches X 8.5 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jess Fiebig
- : paperback
- : English
- : 821.3
- : 112