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Wounds that Shaped Me: Love that Made Me

Wounds that Shaped Me: Love that Made Me

Polidori, Alfred

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798282775273
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 11 2025
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
In this raw and revealing collection of poems, Alfred Polidori charts a remarkable journey through love's many forms and life's harshest trials. From the tender bonds with his son, the profound connection with his mother, the enduring ties to his sister, and the transformative love of his wife, these verses capture the unbreakable threads that weave a family together.

Born into poverty's tight grip and surviving twenty-three years behind prison walls, the poet's voice emerges undimmed, speaking truth to both struggle and triumph. These pages chronicle an extraordinary path from confinement to liberation through education, earning multiple college degrees and forging a new destiny.

Each poem serves as a testament to resilience, charting the territory between pain and redemption, loss and discovery, confinement and freedom. This collection stands as both witness and celebration-bearing testimony to the power of love to sustain us, the capacity of education to transform us, and the human spirit's endless ability to grow through life's darkest moments into something greater.

Wounds That Shaped Me: Love That Made Me invites readers into an intimate journey of transformation, where every verse marks another step on the path from who we were to who we can become.

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