Post-Traumatic Poetry
is at once deeply personal and frighteningly universal.
Mackenzie Rose
's collection of poems shares her story from being a young woman in an abusive relationship to becoming a domestic violence survivor. Her poems take the reader through her first glimpses of her partner's narcissism and gas-lighting to the moment he tried to kill her. They untangle her medical trauma and find her traversing the world with a new identity while learning to understand her physical and emotional scars.