From the poet who brought you the debut chapbook, Sam White and the seven inner demons
This Script is from the Past is a book of poems collected over two and a half decades of life.
Some aren't traditional poems, per se, but they are poetic in their own sense of the word.
If they sound unfinished, it's because they are. And
If they sound juvenile, it's because she was.
This book revisits narratives from the past to serve as a reminder that they are no longer relevant. It is a book about healing. It is about rewriting your karmic script and breaking patterns that earlier generations may have cursed you with.
This book may make you uncomfortable. Self-exploration has a way of doing that. But as the dusty chalkboard in the lunch hall at grade nine camp read, outside your comfort zone is where the magic happens.
This book may challenge you, as I know it challenged me. But I hope that it will also encourage you. Encourage you to look at and reevaluate your relationships, both of the past and present, but most importantly, with yourself. - SB
