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This is more than a love letter to the body that almost killed her... This is a poetry collection born from surviving the brink of death. It delves into the reality of her blood clots, the fear, a hint of courage, and a touch of dark humor about trying to stay alive. These poems bite, snarl, ache, and drag illness into the fluorescent lights of her hospital room. They force you take a closer look. These poems bear witness to what is alive beneath the surface of a body that has turned into a battlefield. It's full of poetry that's sharp, darkly funny, and hauntingly beautiful. The writing is tender and vicious and unflinching in its truth. She somehow transformed the emotional shrapnel of almost dying into art. At its core, this book is about a survivor who's done apologizing for taking up space. It's part medical drama, part manic energy, and all feral heart.

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""Each page summons vividly dark but sumptuous images of what it's like to fight a war in which your enemy is your own body, and it takes no prisoners (or worse, maybe it does)."" ""This is the unfiltered truth of a life that is forever burning and returning from the ashes out of defiance. A life of being melted down and beaten into something different, stronger."" ""Her collection is not some soft whimper in a shadowed hospital bed... it is a strong, amplified voice of a collective being of pain that demands attention and will not shy away from the truth of existence."" ""The work does not solicit pity; it demands reckoning."" ""Curry dismantles the ableist viewpoint of fragility, revealing instead that vulnerability itself becomes the site of resistance.""

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