Poems for the Divorced Heart

Some marriages end quietly. This one didn't.Poems for the Divorced Heart is a raw, unflinching walk through the wreckage of a marriage that should never have lasted as long as it did and the fierce, funny, furious relief of finally walking away.Across twelve poems, this collection moves through every stage of it: the years of not getting it, the slow realization of what was actually happening, the rage that finally has somewhere to go, and the hard-won peace on the other side of "I do." There's heartbreak here, but there's also humor, defiance, and a few lines that contain angry words and curses (not for the faint of heart).This isn't a gentle healing book of poems. It's what it actually sounds like to survive a bad marriage and come out the other side still standing, still funny, still angry, and still yours.For anyone who has ever loved someone who never deserved it and lived to write about it. *Makes a great gift for the newly divorced person with an awful ex-husband.