STRAY GHOSTS SLEEP ON LILY PADS

(Ann's) language is both unflinching and delicate brutal in its honesty and tender in its metaphors.POEMS INDIAStray Ghosts Sleep on Lily Pads is a collection of raw unflinching coming-of-age poetry that captures the rugged uncertain terrain of adolescence.Blurring the fine line between fictional and confessional worlds all forty-three poems peer into the nostalgic grief of childhood the desperate anguish of teenage and the abysmal shadows of mental health struggles that loom overhead as one drifts slowly into adulthood.Yet amidst the wreckage there is hope redemption and the riotous act of blooming while planted knee-deep in dirt. Through an unfiltered stream-of-consciousness narrative Stray Ghosts Sleep on Lily Pads attempts to map a lone teenager's anarchic outburst from darkness into light.