Out of Something Ugly

<p>2018 Indiereader Discovery Awards - Poetry Category Winner</p><p></p><p><em>Out of Something Ugly</em> is an award-winning book of poetry documenting the ramifications of child abuse and neglect on a person's psyche along with the mind's inspiring tireless ability to endure and survive. The content in this collection was written over a ten-year span starting from the creator's adolescence and continuing into their mid-twenties.</p><p>The cornerstones of this work include struggling with self-loathing and loneliness processing the conflicting and overwhelming emotions felt toward the original abuser and pushing ever onward to try to find a way out of the dark. <em>Out of Something Ugly's</em> mission is to draw beauty and meaning from ugly experiences so as to transform them and turn them into instruments for healing.</p>