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A Life Lived: her name means victory.
Paperback
Series: We Women We, Book 1
Writing InstructionGeneral Alternative HealthGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Braintree Trust
Published: Jul 26 2022
Pages: 418
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A Life Lived: Her Name Means Victory is a deeply personal, first-person memoir told through the lens of poetry. This collection offers an unflinching exploration of a life once filled with promise, slowly unraveled by a series of traumatic events-and ultimately rebuilt with a fierce commitment to truth.
Through evocative, lyrical verse, Victoria Lee Case chronicles a five-year period marked by neurotrauma, medical betrayal, miscarriage, near-death, and profound loss. This is the discovery that a person can be living, yet dead at the same time.
This collection is more than a record of survival-it's a reckoning with grief, love, womanhood, and the body itself. As the poet confronts her mortality, she also examines themes of autonomy, ambition, and the impossible roles often assigned to women by society. Alongside deeply personal experiences of miscarriage and divorce, she questions what it means to heal, to choose joy, and to love again-with both vulnerability and power.
At its heart, it is about confronting one's deepest truths, no matter how difficult, and finding the strength to rise again.
As in the already released we Women me, joy. the last section makes the case for true joy based in a deep faith, acceptance of receiving and facing what true healing actually produces: Love
Written entirely in the first person, every poem is drawn from lived experience, this is a spiritual and emotional excavation. A journey into the depths, art rising from the raw.
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