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Inside Violence Violence Inside
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Publisher Price: $17.00
ISBN13: 9781963245103
Publisher: Flowersong Press
Published: Sep 29 2025
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Inside Violence Violence Inside is a lyrical cartography of harm and tenderness where the body shelters both, and a voice learns to live between them.
Greatly inspired by the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School, Lovely Raju's poetry collection does not cease at the sound of gunfire. These poems also confront domestic ruptures and reveal how violence echoes through households, landscapes, and memory itself.
Divided into four mirrored movements (Inside / Violence / Violence / Inside), the collection becomes a study-and perhaps a remedial study-of violence: a search for resolution in existing trauma, for justice for a half-dead mother, and for language strong enough to bear exhaustion. Along the way, the reader encounters a deer licking a window, angels in a neighborhood park, a sapling lost to a storm, and two women-one in hijab, one nearly bare-radiant as flowers emitting the aroma of a morning sun.
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