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All you have to do to read my ARC is comment your email below and then email me your posted reviews after reading. Or you can create a free reader account with Booksprout and search A Life Cycle by Nicole Asherah in the ARC section.

Book Summary:

A Life Cycle follows the introspective process of transformation after emotional hardship through poetic language. It is broken into sections after a traumatic event that represents the final tipping point. What follows is The Shattering: a deep dive into the suffering of fully losing one’s sense of self and safety, The Healing: a journey through processing layers of trauma to reach the root hurts of childhood, Light Shines Through: an exploration of reigniting hope and learning to find joy, and The Loving: a discovery of what love is and how the act of loving has much more to do with one’s self than the person receiving the love.

A Life Cycle transcends the genre of poetry because of its ability to universally help people process and name feelings that often elude words. This book is for anyone developing, hurting, healing, or becoming new versions of themselves.

Official Reviews:

“Artist and adventurer Asherah delivers an entrancing collection of poems that transport readers through the ebbs and flows of pain and grief toward eventual healing and regrowth…where she excels the most: wrenching pained emotion from the heart and then intensely examining it in poems of psychological weight and insight, always exuding vulnerability and resilience. Overall, A Life Cycle is a thoughtful anthology that can be read in one sitting but will stick with readers for a lifetime.”

– BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly

“It’s the poet’s refusal to simplify the contradictory web of human existence that gives this book its power. A compassionate and accessible poetry cycle about loving oneself in the aftermath of violation.“

– Kirkus Reviews

Author bio:

Nicole Asherah is an artist, writer, and photographer who discovered her work has the ability to help herself and others heal their emotional and psychological wounds. The University of Roehampton in England offered her a position in their creative writing poetry masters program despite not having a bachelor’s degree. Asherah uses this skill to help others come closer to the emotions they experience in order for them to understand and release them.