I recommend this listening experience to everyone. I will listen repeatedly I'm sure, but I'm also buying hard copies for myself and as gifts. There's so much more I could say but instead I say listen to Wild Embers. And a revolutionary call for change in reimagining of fairytales and what we teach our daughters. She gravitates between first to second person point of views within her book. Description 147 poems with individual titles divide the book with accessible language. There's forgiveness and encouragement in her words. Wild Embers, Your Soul is a River, and Great Goddesses are best-selling books which capture the hearts of her large online following. The sequence of the poems was also well done, moving from our universal connection to the pain of human experience, and our continued survival despite our mistakes. There were unexpected moments when I found myself crying, I was so moved. For me, it was both a validation and a blessing in a stranger's voice ( which, by the way had a distant familiarity, that I later identified as hearing echoes of Audrey Hepburn, not in a bad or performative way, just reminiscent). But hearing Wild Embers in the poet's own voice somehow made a different kind of connection. I've never listened to a book of poetry before, usually prefer to read them with my own inner voice.
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