Picking Scabs

by Susan Snyder

"This is my collection. It’s about me, drawn from my imagination and my experiences. These poems have been quite cathartic. A bastardized form of therapy where the same few themes kept inserting themselves over and over like horny puppies. Muzzles, fractured teeth, rape and sexual abuse, scattered things, blood smears and, of course, strange ways of fucking. That’s where my mind has wallowed this past year. I rut in the mud where ladies of polite company fear to tread lest they get some on their Sunday best." --Susan Snyder In this follow-up to 2020’s Broken Nails Poetry Collection, Susan lets loose with a voice filled with pain and rage. She bars no holds, she spares no room for lies. These poems are Susan at her most vulnerable, her most powerful, and importantly, her most honest.

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

Published March 14, 2023

Reviews

[Diana | Indie Book Addict · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picking Scabs is a very dark poetry collection that touches on abuse, death, and other depravities. Some of my favorites were Last Words, Stitches, Chewing the Muzzle, and Fear Mongering. Each poem is deep, raw, and packed with despair, sadness, revenge and more. As I said, very dark and full of emotion. It may not be for sensitive readers due to subject matter, but I thought Snyder did a wonderful job with it. She tosses it all out there candidly and uncut.

"But that cycle was over now. The hamster wheel of suffering ceased."

[Ryan Bradley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Susan Snyder digs deep, literally picking emotional scabs, in her newest raw poetry collection. Snyder's not afraid to dig into the darkest topics, but also to treat them with the heft they deserve. Her talent knows no bounds.