{"product_id":"breaking-up-with-the-cobalt-blues-poems-for-healing-paperback","title":"Breaking Up with the Cobalt Blues: Poems for Healing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLindsay Soberano Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lindsay Soberano Wilson's second full-length book of poems, \u003cem\u003eBreaking Up With the Cobalt Blues: Poems For Healing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003efinds peace in painful, messy, shameful parts of life unearthed at inconvenient times. With poems about suicide, sexual assault, addiction, intergenerational trauma, domestic violence, Toronto 90s rave culture, and a pandemic, \u003cem\u003eBreaking Up With the Cobalt Blues\u003c\/em\u003e finds light in the darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The visual and lyrical poems, shed light on hard truths while inspiring readers to \"Dance Through the Dark\" to find \"Glimmers,\" instead of tripping on triggers like the poem, \"I Tripped on a Wound Today\" about being a third-generation Holocaust survivor. As the creator of \u003cem\u003ePut It To Rest\u003c\/em\u003e, a mental health literary online hub, Lindsay believes in putting painful stories to rest by writing them out to let them go: \u003cem\u003eBreaking Up With the Cobalt Blues\u003c\/em\u003e weaves in and out of childhood, coming of age, and adulthood on a healing journey to put the past behind, embrace the present, and trust the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In the opening poem, \"I Call This Trauma\"\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003e the narrator discovers that untying \"knots\" to fix everything is fruitless, eventually turning to acceptance in \"Hope, Are You There?\" \u003cem\u003eBreaking Up With The Cobalt Blues\u003c\/em\u003e culminates in a heroic call to action to break up with victimhood to embrace trauma healing reflected in the beauty of the \"northern lights.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers on a journey from victimization to becoming self-empowered curators of life, despite the freefall from grace into everyday beauty like being open to receiving \"Glimmers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e So just maybe one can never really break up with the \"blues\" but there's no reason why the blues can't morph into a softer hue that's part of life rather than a defining moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues\u003c\/em\u003e is about making peace with grief and not letting the past define you, but recreating a future that accepts that pain is a part of life, allowing growth. The concluding poem \"Stay Gold\" is a tribute to the friends we've lost too soon, accepting that only the good die young.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752273608992,"sku":"9781962374255","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ccd0a095a647105991f43f0d1c799c97.webp?v=1779991836","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/breaking-up-with-the-cobalt-blues-poems-for-healing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}