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Trumpeting topics such as loss of innocence, entry into womanhood, violence, and unabashed whimsy, this book of poetry offers a collection of experimental texts aimed to capture the impact of a ravenous voice. Sophia is a firecracker of a soul, writing slam poetry to perform on stage and demanding a presence through her art and passion for rhetoric, but also stopping to sit and crochet with a tabby cat in her lap, which she would recommend to anyone.
Adolescence is the theme of this work, and it is raw and vulnerable and mean. It is the reward of the teetering between the identities of a frightened introvert and a bursting-at-the-seams extrovert, and the struggle between appreciation and rejection of societal confines. It is an invitation into another mind as it struggles to accomplish freedom.