Learning how tO be really is freeing
Adelia Amé’s first poetry collection, updated to a second edition, contains the author’s poetic journey from her teens all the way through mid-2025. It has been edited for clarity, relevance, novelty, and cohesion with Amé’s inner voice at the time of publication in June. Get your copy, and enjoy the journey.
Ashgrown chronicles my life and observations of it through the medium of poetry. I’ve lived more life than some people my age, and I hope it shows through the maturation of craft and storytelling, as well as the experiences therein. I was “burned,” not by a girl’s romantic relationships, but by life’s swords. And if I didn’t understand the use of a pen then, I surely do now. The collection is formative—experimental, but I think it has a place on your shelf.
Take a Look Inside
You’re probably wondering – what makes this poetry read-worthy? Maybe the Table of Contents will give you a clue!
Chapters
1
Identity & Outsiderhood
14
Femininity, Power & Transformation
27
Love, Loss, and Emotional Dissonance
40
Myth, Meta & Meaning-Making
53
Exiting the Megaplex
About the author
Adelia
I’m just an average girl with a lot of thoughts, and I use my blogs to get those thoughts into form. My poetry is an outlet for stored-up emotion and a testament to my continual self-renewal, my stories to my sharpening understanding of the world outside.
I seek to provide voice to diverse characters and thoughts, shifting from one culture to the next the more I learn. I want to grasp the unsaid and turn it into something that people think about and make actionable. Occasionally I publish books to my Ko-fi, but I post frequently here and elsewhere on WordPress. See my archives for more work by me.
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