We Grew Wild Once

S.B. Rosangela's We Grew Wild Once is a tribute to the people we were in the places that made us. It is a 1,957 mile journey from the flatlands of Middle America to the great eastern Metropolises, to the cottage countries and glass cities of southern Ontario. It is a love letter to past selves, who we buried in simple ceremonies along highways and back roads. It is a homecoming. It is a home-building.

Unapologetically sincere and tirelessly romantic, this triumphant first collection articulates the universal cost of restless living. Rather than run from the past, Rosangela embraces the backward bending knife of nostalgia as the ultimate tool of creation. By bearing out our wounds, she suggestions, we make our way to new homelands.