American Rapture: Poems from a Heartscape

This collection of poetry is for all the hearts that have done everything right but still end up in a gutter- all the people who are pissed off and unfulfilled and who are able to laugh at themselves. No more lies. No more pretending. Whether we have lost our self-concept to our own broken childhoods to parenthood to careers to marriages to the wrong lovers- it is time for us to champion one anothers truths to embrace our worth and to dispel toxic expectations of perfection.Borne out of the authors postpartum depression journey (and subsequent nervous breakdown) and sexual awakening in her thirties Jordans poems explore the interweaving of relationships loss healing and self-worth. This collection follows the trajectory of self-exploration through relationships that have broken down and brought her closer to herself prior to and in the aftermath of hospitalization- predominantly the abandonment of Jordans mother a trauma which only manifested once her own baby was placed in her arms. Jordans bicultural marriage and experiences as an immigrant in Great Britain further highlight the complexity of one modern womans quest for personhood.