There's Always A Second Act

<p><strong><em>while there is no absolute path to growth there is always another chance if you allow yourself to take it. it starts with the second act. </em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There's Always A Second Act</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an homage to home in all senses of the word-people places and things. Julia Esperanza moves us through memories and renaissance in a way that is relatable and timeless interconnecting heritage and history as we navigate what it means to be tenacious in healing vulnerability and self. This poetry collection is a reminder that one can always begin again. - Flor Ana Author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Dissection of Heart & Rewiring of Mind</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this poetry collection survival self-reclamation and the inheritance of personal generational and spiritual legacies are intertwined moving through memory vulnerability ancestry and rebirth with each poem shaped as an act rather than a singular narrative. Anchored by the titular refrain there's always a second act it captures the ache of growing up the persistence of growth after loss and the quiet hard-earned power of self-liberation. - J.A. Self Author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Even After Saturn</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There's Always A Second Act </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is the poetry your soul needs to hear see touch taste-it is ambrosia. Esperanza unfolds her own healing journey and by the end you find that you too have been healed through her artistry and identity laid bare. - Jo Pellinore Author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Bouquet of Vellum</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Julia Esperanza's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There's Always a Second Act </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>beautifully weaves cultural narratives of self home and identity while subtly shaping poems into stylistically rhythmic three-act plays. Focusing on the disruption of life's second act in her poetry effectively parallels the play structure as fiercely fertile grounds for hope through the images of upheaval. This is creativity at its finest! - E. M. Simms Author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Where The Petals Land Plátanos Grow </em></p><p></p>