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Ghosts Found: Collected Poems and Essays
Ghosts Found is a hybrid collection of poetry, essays, and short fiction exploring grief, trauma, memory, and survival. Moving through emotional aftermath rather than resolution, it traces what lingers: the body’s memory, fractured language, and the quiet ways we learn to keep going.
Blending lyrical essays with reflective and emotionally driven writing, this collection speaks to readers drawn to grief memoirs, trauma-informed literature, and contemporary hybrid work. Intimate and unflinching, it offers a language for living with what does not leave.
Blending lyrical essays with reflective and emotionally driven writing, this collection speaks to readers drawn to grief memoirs, trauma-informed literature, and contemporary hybrid work. Intimate and unflinching, it offers a language for living with what does not leave.
114 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 30, 2023
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March 18, 2026Ghosts Found by Laura Resurreccion is a collection of writing and art work mainly focusing on essays and poetry relating the author's lived experience.
This collection deals movingly with disability, chronic illness, anxiety, eating disorders, complicated grief, family dynamics, and the importance of writing itself, The author deals candidly and directly with these difficult subjects and provides raw and unfiltered, very emotional realities as she wrote during times of crisis such as the pandemic.
What I really liked about this collection was that it covered so much ground. I think something in it will resonate with everyone, even as the experience itself is unique to the author. I am confident that any reader will be able to find something to relate to.
In some cases, the author has invented some words to express the breadth of her experience because the usual words do not apply. "Anxietymares", for example are a much more precise way of describing what she experiences than nightmares. What I value most in writing is authenticity, and this collection certainly has that.
I really appreciated how vulnerable and real Ghosts Found was. As a result, I realized that the reason this collection pulled me in as much as it did was because some of the ghosts that she named have also been haunting me.
While this is not a perfect collection and it jumps around from topic to topic, I found it to be very relatable, raw, and vulnerable. Those with disabilities or those who have experienced things similar to what the author details in her note and trigger warnings will find this book especially relevant, but as stated above, I think that almost any reader will find something to relate to.
Full disclosure, I have been friendly internet acquaintances with Laura for the past few years and she was kind enough to send me a digital version of this collection. This review reflects my honest thoughts.
This collection deals movingly with disability, chronic illness, anxiety, eating disorders, complicated grief, family dynamics, and the importance of writing itself, The author deals candidly and directly with these difficult subjects and provides raw and unfiltered, very emotional realities as she wrote during times of crisis such as the pandemic.
What I really liked about this collection was that it covered so much ground. I think something in it will resonate with everyone, even as the experience itself is unique to the author. I am confident that any reader will be able to find something to relate to.
In some cases, the author has invented some words to express the breadth of her experience because the usual words do not apply. "Anxietymares", for example are a much more precise way of describing what she experiences than nightmares. What I value most in writing is authenticity, and this collection certainly has that.
I really appreciated how vulnerable and real Ghosts Found was. As a result, I realized that the reason this collection pulled me in as much as it did was because some of the ghosts that she named have also been haunting me.
While this is not a perfect collection and it jumps around from topic to topic, I found it to be very relatable, raw, and vulnerable. Those with disabilities or those who have experienced things similar to what the author details in her note and trigger warnings will find this book especially relevant, but as stated above, I think that almost any reader will find something to relate to.
Full disclosure, I have been friendly internet acquaintances with Laura for the past few years and she was kind enough to send me a digital version of this collection. This review reflects my honest thoughts.
February 27, 2026
A poignant journey from a child who felt somewhat invisible—softly echoing the book’s title—to a woman finding her self-worth. What begins with someone sticking her foot into the stream of her own certainty ends with a writer with a powerful, unique, and extremely enjoyable voice.
A catharsis achieved without the specter of bitterness.
Highly recommended.
A catharsis achieved without the specter of bitterness.
Highly recommended.
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