Words Are Just Words - Couverture souple

Bosgieter, Maylanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798223840510

Editeur : M&M, 2026

Synopsis

Words fail us. Words haunt us. Words become us.

In Words Are Just Words, Maylanie Bosgieter explores the quiet moments where language breaks down-where the story we tell about ourselves doesn't match who we're becoming, where memory holds truths we can't quite name, where a single word can carry the weight of an entire family history.

This semi-autobiographical collection weaves together poems about books and reading, family and roots, identity and change, memory and grief. Drawing from her work as a genealogist and lifelong reader, Bosgieter writes with unflinching honesty about what it means to search for yourself in the stories you carry-in family traditions, in the books that shaped you, in the words you choose (or fail to choose) to tell your truth.

From the metaphorical (a tree with missing branches, a winter that's disappearing, a dress that's never just a dress) to the deeply personal (a sister's graduation, a cat's forgiveness, a great-grandmother's legacy), these poems capture different versions of the same human struggle: how to hold on to who we were while becoming who we need to be.

Raw, direct, and deeply felt, this collection reminds us that the ordinary already contains enough wonder-we just have to look carefully enough to find it.

For readers of contemporary poetry, memoir, and anyone who has ever felt lost in translation between the person they were and the person they're becoming.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maylanie Bosgieter is a reader, writer, genealogist, and lifelong seeker of stories. With over 1,700 books read and counting, she has spent most of her life inside other people's narratives-learning empathy from characters, discovering truths about herself in fiction, and realizing that the best stories are often the ones we live but forget to tell.

By trade, she is a genealogist, tracing family histories and uncovering the roots that hold us (or refuse to stay still). By passion, she is a poet-though she never set out to be one. Writing found her by accident, born from the necessity of transforming what she's read and lived into something worth saying.

Words Are Just Words is her first poetry collection. It is semi-autobiographical because she hasn't yet learned to separate herself from her words. The poems that fill these pages emerge from real moments-a sister's graduation, a cat's forgiveness, a winter that's disappearing, a family tree with missing branches-and the quiet, persistent question: Who am I becoming?

She writes without formal training and without pretense, believing that meaning is found not by disguising an idea but by looking at it carefully. Her voice is direct, her vision is honest, and her poems ask readers to pause, remember someone they love, reconsider an ordinary object, or feel a little less alone.

When she's not reading or writing, she's likely researching her family's story, thinking about why words matter so much, or wondering what comes next.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: M&M
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798223840510
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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