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While the issues and hurts focused upon are not mine, Blythe Baird represents them evocatively and opens a window into the depths even from far off.

The one that hits hardest for me remains, however, the very first one - In The Shape Of A Poem

Watch me build an empire from the ashes
of everything that tried to destroy me.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is by far the most powerful collection of poetry I have ever read. My entire existence resonated to every word in this book. I felt myself feeling the emotions, feeling the pain and experiencing the liberation.

Thank you so much for writing this book.

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read and review Sweet, Young & Worried.

When I came across the book I realised that the authors name seemed familiar. I think I heard her slam poem, when the fart girl gets skinny in freshmen year. Aside from that I haven't read or listened to a lot of her work but now I plan on doing so.

Blythe Baird's collection is beautifully mature. Some of the poems make you sad, but there's a sense of a person who has grown up in these pieces which helps a lot; which gives you hope. That our personalities are more than what broke us.

I don't think I've read something so hauntingly beautiful, bleak and honest in a long time.