Crowe - Jerilyn Alderman-Hansson

In the aftermath of toxic love and brittle promises, this intimate collection of poetry threads together the ache of traumatic relationships with the stubborn, hopeful work of healing, and threads eroticism throughout the poetry that is both fearless and healing.
This book invites readers to witness the messy, beautiful process of reclaiming desire and agency. Each poem is a doorway—into memory, into pain acknowledged and released, and into the raw honesty of choosing self-preservation without relinquishing longing. With reverberating tenderness, it amplifies lesbian voices, centers consent and boundary-making, and celebrates healing as a courageous act of love, for oneself, in the wake of post-breakup reality.