SAVED

by Prudence Brooks

You’ve been the Queen of the Get Through your whole life—making it work, pushing ahead. But what happens when you stop surviving and start becoming? What happens when strength turns into something sacred? When endurance becomes evolution? When that survival turns into something divine?

Enter SAVED—Prudence Brooks' striking new poetry collection that rejects toxic positivity and turns toward honest resilience, redefining healing as something you do on your own terms.  Every poem in SAVED lands with haunting intensity. Together, they trace a journey through adoption trauma, the grip of patriarchal religion, the uneasy truce with one’s own body, and the fierce will to endure by finding holiness in the secret sovereign of persistence: the roach.

ISBN:  978-1-968451-11-0
Page Count: 146

"SAVED is a script for the hopeless; raw truths and open wounds that knit themselves closed one at a time with each turn of a page. Each poem packs a delightful, vulnerable, agonizing bite-sized punch. As the reader, you will go through a full cycle of transformation—taken apart and put back together—between the first and last pages, as you too make the journey to healing alongside Prudence Brooks."

—Ophelia Monet, Editor-in-Chief of wildscape. literary journal

"In SAVED, Prudence Brooks writes from the front lines—where a father isn’t a person but a “sticky bar counter,” bodies revolt, and a girl learns to survive. With ferocious, cutting voices, these poems track an orphan through Midwestern winters, altars, hospital beds, grocery aisles, and the endless, glitching hallways of the internet. Hunger becomes hex; Bipolar renames herself; a roach evolves into a patron saint of persistence."

—Isabelle Correa, author of Portrait of a Person Who Pushes Love Away in Fear of Losing It