My Honest Poem

Author: Jess Fiebig

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  • : $25.00 NZD
  • : 9781869409241
  • : Auckland University Press
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  • : August 2020
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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.