I Hope This Finds you Well : : Poems

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Call Number: 811.6 Ba, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Baer, Kate
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Baer, Kate	4-week checkout	Due 05-26-2024

"I'm sure you could benefit from jumping on a treadmill" "Women WANT a male leader . . . It's honest to god the basic human playbook" These are some of the thousands of messages that Kate Baer has received online. Like countless other writers--particularly women--with profiles on the internet, as Kate's online presence grew, so did the darker messages crowding her inbox. These missives from strangers have ranged from "advice" and opinions to outright harassment. At first, these messages resulted in an immediate delete and block. Until, on a whim, Kate decided to transform the cruelty into art, using it to create fresh and intriguing poems. These pieces, along with ones made from notes of gratitude and love, as well as from the words of public figures, have become some of her most beloved work. I Hope This Finds You Well is drawn from those works: a book of poetry birthed in the darkness of the internet that offers light and hope. By cleverly building on the harsh negativity and hate women often receive--and combining it with heartwarming messages of support, gratitude, and connection, Kate Baer offers us a lesson in empowerment, showing how we too can turn bitterness into beauty.

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Fun and clever submitted by russelan on June 20, 2022, 8:27pm I had no idea what erasure poetry was before stumbling on Kate's instagram. It's fun and she's very clever at creating erasure poems. There were many in this short collection that I loved. I found I preferred when the poem was quite different from the source material, when she'd turn something spammy or mean to a thoughtful poem, compared to turning something already nice and thoughtful into a nice and thoughtful poem.