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the reckless kind: poetry for the heartbroken and healing
In this follow-up poetry collection to sweet hearts, Bella Ryan continued telling her story, reclaiming her body and learning how to climb mountains.
95 pages, Paperback
Published July 21, 2020
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Bella Ryan
4 books4 followersAuthor writes under the penname Isabella Rogge as well.
Bella Ryan began writing when she was eight years old, beginning with poetry and progressing to short stories and novels in her early teen years. She wrote and self-published her first novel, Sanguine Moon, in 2013. The summer of 2014 was spent crafting her novella and second published piece, Exhaled. Next came Fire in the Stars, coauthored with Mitchell Thomas Kazanjian, and published in September 2015.
Recent works include Charcoal Sun, a prequel to her debut novel, and sweet hearts: poetry for the anxious and in love.
Born in California but raised in Colorado, Isabella graduated from UCCS in 2021 with a B.S. in Biology. While not writing, she might be found baking, painting, or getting lost in the woods. Her favorite book is Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. Turtles are her weakness. Her biggest inspirations are her family, including her coauthor and husband Mitchell, and her baby girl, Rosalyn.
Bella Ryan began writing when she was eight years old, beginning with poetry and progressing to short stories and novels in her early teen years. She wrote and self-published her first novel, Sanguine Moon, in 2013. The summer of 2014 was spent crafting her novella and second published piece, Exhaled. Next came Fire in the Stars, coauthored with Mitchell Thomas Kazanjian, and published in September 2015.
Recent works include Charcoal Sun, a prequel to her debut novel, and sweet hearts: poetry for the anxious and in love.
Born in California but raised in Colorado, Isabella graduated from UCCS in 2021 with a B.S. in Biology. While not writing, she might be found baking, painting, or getting lost in the woods. Her favorite book is Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. Turtles are her weakness. Her biggest inspirations are her family, including her coauthor and husband Mitchell, and her baby girl, Rosalyn.
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August 1, 2020
Ryan’s first poetry collection, sweet hearts, was a debut of softness and love. Ryan wrote tenderly about the intricacies of falling in love with yourself, someone else and the world around you. the reckless kind is a triumph of a follow up.
In this collection, Ryan bares more than she did in sweet hearts and invites her reader to embrace their sadness, their vulnerabilities and the small things we discover on our way to finding hope; such as holding the hand of someone we believed lost.
The heartache and hope within the reckless kind is refreshingly genuine. Ryan’s words are not bursting with melancholic melodrama. She is honest and her style fluctuates effortlessly between conversational, heady and sensory, and scientific. Ryan tells a story truthfully; this ensures the strength of the entire collection. Ryan has crafted the reckless kind with a beginning and with an end in sight. Structurally, it is symbolic of how grief eventually leads to an acceptance weighted in both happiness and sadness.
Thus, even though Ryan herself professes this collection is sad in comparison to sweet hearts, she does not deny herself or her reader hope, and this is admirable. Ryan has undeniably harnessed her talent further since the release of sweet hearts and so she weaves the everyday with the celestial with the mountains and the ocean, masterfully. the reckless kind is quite simply beautiful.
“this space is all that isn’t gone,
a place to love these used-to-be’s,
these vacant homes, these
lost, lorn shrines”
[ode to the empty]
In this collection, Ryan bares more than she did in sweet hearts and invites her reader to embrace their sadness, their vulnerabilities and the small things we discover on our way to finding hope; such as holding the hand of someone we believed lost.
The heartache and hope within the reckless kind is refreshingly genuine. Ryan’s words are not bursting with melancholic melodrama. She is honest and her style fluctuates effortlessly between conversational, heady and sensory, and scientific. Ryan tells a story truthfully; this ensures the strength of the entire collection. Ryan has crafted the reckless kind with a beginning and with an end in sight. Structurally, it is symbolic of how grief eventually leads to an acceptance weighted in both happiness and sadness.
Thus, even though Ryan herself professes this collection is sad in comparison to sweet hearts, she does not deny herself or her reader hope, and this is admirable. Ryan has undeniably harnessed her talent further since the release of sweet hearts and so she weaves the everyday with the celestial with the mountains and the ocean, masterfully. the reckless kind is quite simply beautiful.
“this space is all that isn’t gone,
a place to love these used-to-be’s,
these vacant homes, these
lost, lorn shrines”
[ode to the empty]
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