
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Please Don't Go Before I Get Better
About this book
Discover this exquisite poetry and prose collection about the pains of growing up from the popular millennial Instagram poet, perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur. Following her breakout debut Eighteen Years, poet Madisen Kuhn is thrilled to share this intimate portrait of a young woman navigating early adulthood and leaving her teenage years behind.Chronicling the complexities, joys, and challenges of this transitional phase of life, Please Don't Go Before I Get Better is a powerful, deeply affecting work that pierces your heart with its refreshing candor and vulnerability. A poignant exploration of self-image, self-discovery, and self-reflection, this anthology brilliantly captures the universal experience of growing up, and you are bound to find yourself reflected in these glimmering pages.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Rough Draft
- Sleep Talk
- Sunday, April 23rd
- Landmark
- Magnets
- Alaska
- When I Want to Be on Your Team
- Irises
- Astronomy Club
- People over Places
- Half-Awake
- I Was Happy
- Nosferatu
- Beginnings Always Seem Better Through Rose-Tinted Sunnies
- She Would Want You To
- Beautiful Alone
- My First Kiss
- Rest
- P.S.
- June
- Forget-Me-Not
- Gap
- The First Year
- Philadelphia
- Disciples
- Better Times
- Hurry up, We Don’t Have Time to Worry
- As Long as I Don’t Stop Living
- A Soft Summer Afternoon
- Knots like Pretzels
- A Sorry Sort of Snake
- Slamming Doors
- Anhedonia
- Bathroom Mirror Pep Talk
- A Beautiful Poem
- A Shattered Glass
- Shower
- Pure
- October
- Subtlety
- Your Twenties & Stability: A Paradox
- Agape
- Things That Remind Me of Delaware
- If I Hadn’t Been Moving so Quickly
- Emma
- Courage Isn’t Fearless
- I Want You to Cry, I Want You to Kiss Me
- Movement
- Bed of Roses
- Happiness: You Have to Try
- Naked
- Sufficiency
- Home
- Tokyo
- Please, Please, Please
- Lover, Rescuer
- Dryer Sheets
- Attach
- Commit
- Collapse
- Piano Songs
- Liability
- September
- Post-Breakup Treks
- Antidepressants
- The Guilt of Indifference
- Remember All the Poems I Wrote about Him?
- Blue Tang Fish
- To Those Who Believe That Love Isn’t Real
- Los Angeles
- Two Months
- Move Slowly
- Neglect
- Shoshana
- Kindling
- To My past Muses
- Forgotten
- 21
- Growing Up
- The Equinox
- Coda
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright