I Love You Call Me Back

<b>From one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time a collection exploring loneliness anxiety and longing--and finding peace and even joy in unexpected places</b> <p/> Sabrina Benaim author of <i>Depression & Other Magic Tricks</i> has connected deeply with readers and reached millions of viewers through her poetry breaking down the stigma around mental illness. Now she dives into challenging and universal territory: grief over a relationship's end loneliness in a world under lockdown and the anxiety of caring for a loved one from afar in the wake of a serious diagnosis. <p/> Unfurling over the course of one month in 2020 in seventy-five original poems <i>I Love You Call Me Back </i>grapples with mental health struggles and the uncertainty of the moment and beyond. In isolation Sabrina dares to embrace loneliness in all its permutations: the sorrow of getting your mother's voicemail when you call to say I love you; the bitter-sweetness when your dog takes up your ex's side of the bed; the joys of eating ice cream for dinner and singing badly <i>loudly</i>. <p/> In her raw and deeply relatable style Sabrina reminds us to love our whole selves: you can't have joy without sorrow and being anxious or depressed doesn't mean you can never be happy. In her words Sometimes self-care is just surviving. And that's okay. Sabrina shows us that there's beauty and courage in that too.