**From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. **
Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark.
The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection *bone* are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence--so clear and pared-down, they become universal.
From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society's expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward's *bone* resonate to the core of what it means to be human.
*"You will come away bruised. *
*You will come away bruised*
*but this will give you poetry." *

2024-09-11