Restless Reckless Heart

by Colleen Dunlap

A poetry collection telling a story with two parts: learning to love someone else without conditions, and how to love yourself just as much.

114 pages, Paperback

Published January 20, 2018

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Reviews

[Jan Dunlap · Rating 5 out of 5]

Achingly beautiful is the best way to describe the first half of this collection of poetry; these are poems filled with longing and the intensity of the human heart searching for, finding, and losing love. In the second portion of the collection, though, the poet moves beyond these experiences to find self-love and wholeness, a journey that ultimately reveals, and secures, freedom for that longing heart. Through it all, Dunlap has a gift for connecting to her reader's own vulnerabilities and wounds that makes this a stunning, triumphant poetry debut.

[Ais · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful collection of poems, both romantic and introspective. This book takes a journey through the heart, through struggles of outward love and self love, as well as family life and achieving independence. Witty, modern, and often fantastical, some poems read like journal entries, others like letters or online messages, and others like internal monologues. It is intimate and relateable for the hopeful romantic and a good read for any woman searching for inner strength.