"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...

RÉSUMÉ: Survivante d'un féminicide, Geneviève Rioux écrit ce recueil de poésie comme une reprise de pouvoir et de liberté. Au fil des poèmes se construit une réflexion sur l'improbable répétition de la violence vécue de mère en fille en des lieux et des temps éloignés. La poète donne voix à la souffrance d'une famille, à celle des ami.es, des proches et des connaissances, toutes et tous victimes de ces violences. Survivaces invite...

"How She Bleeds is a body of work filled with emotion, trauma, heartache and abandonment, while one's own strength is realized in the aftermath. This book speaks about the horrors of sexual abuse, the pain of unrequited love, and having the strength to endure hardships. Her words are both haunting and healing, taking the reader on a journey through the most heartbreaking and life changing moments of the writer's life. This work of raw honesty and...

A series of poems convey the feelings of a young girl whose sense of joy and security at the family's summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.