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Survival & Other Surprises by Casper E. Falls
5.0
emotional hopeful informative reflective

I requested and received this book from BookSirens. My opinions are my own.

Every single poem is a banger. This poetry collection is the culmination of years of illness, rage, and learning to love oneself again. I knew when the author's note started with "Thank you for choosing to wander along my scars and gaze at the constellations they create", that this would be a beautifully written and an emotionally moving/challenging body of work. And it was. 

Each of the three parts this book is made up of has a different emotional weight. But, I feel the overarching theme across all 3 is resilence. I heavily related to this book. I too have lived in these parts, "Part I surviving You; Part 11: Surviving Me, and Part 111: Surviving as an Act of Rebellion."

 I look my time reading this because I felt the punch of every poem and I needed to take it slow. If you are (like I am) an angry, ill, poetry loving, queer persen read this book. And if you're not one or more of those read it anyway.