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Side Wounds
Side Wounds is a collection of poems that gently guides the reader’s fingers into various wounds on the author’s body and encourages them to prod around.
Oleanderson’s poetry is deeply confessional, facing the raw reality of grief and mental illness head-on. Interlaced are poems about survival and healing. Much of life is mystery, Oleanderson caveats, and here are some good reasons to endure it. Overarching are themes of love, queerness and God - the collection opens on the line, “I still don’t know what I believe; I’ve started telling queer people God loves them.” which sets the tone for much of the rest of the book.
Oleanderson’s poetry is deeply confessional, facing the raw reality of grief and mental illness head-on. Interlaced are poems about survival and healing. Much of life is mystery, Oleanderson caveats, and here are some good reasons to endure it. Overarching are themes of love, queerness and God - the collection opens on the line, “I still don’t know what I believe; I’ve started telling queer people God loves them.” which sets the tone for much of the rest of the book.
- GenresPoetry
100 pages, Paperback
First published February 2, 2024
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July 1, 2025
This collection is both tough and hopeful and definitely packs a punch.
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