Publisher's Synopsis
You don't get into a relationship with a narcissist knowing what is to come. Self-depreciative thinking and deep insecurities both make fertile ground for these types of relationships to take root. Before you can shield your heart and spirit, they've already found your weaknesses and wormed their way in. Soon, separating yourself from what you come to know is abuse, feels utterly impossible. Your sense of self becomes intertwined with their lies. Negative self-talk is amplified by their gaslighting. It takes a strong spirit to break free. How then, to heal?
Raquel Plank took the ugly, most shameful moments and churned it into the poetic narrative in this debut poetry collection. Releasing these poems for you to read is the last step in that healing and one that has finally given her spirit wings.
Experience the falling. The love that seizes the heart and mind. The twisted and savage fight for control. And one woman's journey to break free. Her story may be your story. And her deliverance can inspire you to take up your own wings, and fly free.
Raquel's poetry is emotionally naked, often juxtaposing the outright brutal with an undercurrent of whimsy. Her courage rises to the surface, demonstrating through poetry the unbreakable will of a woman, even through mental and physical bondage. Love Letters to a Narcissist is a masterful and disturbing narrative that so fully represents the toxic relationship that one feels absorbed in the story. An engrossing collection of poems that details the fragility and power of the female experience.
-Christina M. Ward, Author of organic: Fiddleheads & Floss Vol. 1
