My Heart Is Howling

by Amber Hope

There are two women in this collection. One would willingly disappear for the people she loves. The other would rather burn her whole life down before abandoning herself again. My Heart Is Howling inhabits the space between them—that relentless tension where surrender and selfhood must learn to live in one body.

Dark, luminous, immersive, and untamed, these poems move between forests and family kitchens, peach freezer jam and summer storms, teeth and tenderness, all while carrying the wild appetite it takes to remain fully alive. Desires become embodied, bodies become seasons, and the heart grows wild enough to survive its own contradictions. 

Ultimately, this collection reminds us that ferocious joy and devastating sorrow have always belonged to one another. It invites us to dive into the dizzying, electrifying depths of ourselves and to choose, again and again, this one beautiful, brutal life. 

ISBN:  978-1-968451-13-4

Page Count: 100

My Heart is Howling releases on the Winter Solstice—December 21, 2026.

"Viscerally and deliciously sensual, My Heart Is Howling is less of a book and more of a full body experience. With imagery you’ll want to devour, these poems explore a heart at war with itself, trapped between the desire to break in the name of love or run wild and free and away. Amber Hope unapologetically bleeds her torn heart onto the page and freefalls into the chaos of becoming: I am not looking for cleanliness, only proof that I am alive. If it is not drenched in love, tell me what’s the fucking point? This is a stunning collection that reminds us being alive at all is a force of nature, and sometimes the bravest thing to do is relinquish control and surrender to the hurricane of your own heart."

 — Valeria Eden, author of It Festers Electric: Girlhood & Other Ghosts