Growing Pains: echoes of life lost, tracings of life gained

Growing Pains is Emily Rossi's debut poetry collection about the growing pains that accompany life and how doubt, mourning, and joy can find themselves back to back on a page, or even sometimes in the very same sentence. Despite the constant battle in us between thought and feeling, the outcome can be growth. Here it is,
a map of my then and now a map every up and down and the pain that accompanies growth. Feelings are fragile,
their every step risks a hole, risks a bruise.
I handle them wit...