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Icarus: A Poetry Collection
THERE ARE SOME FALLS YOU DON'T WALK AWAY FROM UNCHANGED.
Icarus is a raw and intimate poetry collection about loving deeply, breaking quietly, and finding your way back to yourself after survival has made you someone you no longer recognize.
These poems live in the space between breaking and becoming.
Through cinematic imagery and deeply personal reflections, Morgan Taylor explores heartbreak, grief, mental health, narcissistic abuse, identity, self-worth, and the complicated aftermath of relationships that consume more than they give.
But Icarus is not only about what breaks us.
It is about what remains.
It is for anyone who has stayed too long, loved past their own limits, mourned a former version of themselves, survived something they are still learning how to name, or stood among the pieces of an old life wondering who they might become next.
Inspired by the myth of Icarus—the boy remembered for his fall—this collection turns its attention toward a different
What happens after the fall?
What happens when the fire is gone, but you're still here?
How do you grieve the person you were?
How do you learn to trust yourself again?
And how do you build something new from what remains?
Icarus offers no perfect version of healing. Instead, it gives language to the messy space between devastation and hope—the place where survival slowly becomes something more.
Some things burn us.
Some things break us.
And some falls teach us how to rise differently.
Icarus is a raw and intimate poetry collection about loving deeply, breaking quietly, and finding your way back to yourself after survival has made you someone you no longer recognize.
These poems live in the space between breaking and becoming.
Through cinematic imagery and deeply personal reflections, Morgan Taylor explores heartbreak, grief, mental health, narcissistic abuse, identity, self-worth, and the complicated aftermath of relationships that consume more than they give.
But Icarus is not only about what breaks us.
It is about what remains.
It is for anyone who has stayed too long, loved past their own limits, mourned a former version of themselves, survived something they are still learning how to name, or stood among the pieces of an old life wondering who they might become next.
Inspired by the myth of Icarus—the boy remembered for his fall—this collection turns its attention toward a different
What happens after the fall?
What happens when the fire is gone, but you're still here?
How do you grieve the person you were?
How do you learn to trust yourself again?
And how do you build something new from what remains?
Icarus offers no perfect version of healing. Instead, it gives language to the messy space between devastation and hope—the place where survival slowly becomes something more.
Some things burn us.
Some things break us.
And some falls teach us how to rise differently.
112 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2024
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November 14, 2024
I really loved Icarus by Morgan Taylor. The collection fathoms the depth of emotion and the human experience from unbearable pain to unyielding hope. Would highly recommend.
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