Beautiful and Bruised: A Look Inside - A Lyric Record of Reconciliation

In her powerful debut poetry collection, Amelia Perkins deMuth invites readers on an intimate, unflinching journey through fracture, memory, and ultimate self-recognition. Beautiful and Bruised is not a clean narrative of perfect healing; instead, it is an honest, lyrical act of witness—turning memory into peacework and trauma into tenderness.

Spanning 49 deeply evocative poems across seven thematic parts, this collection traces a soul's movement through darkness and back into the light. deM...