Made of Flowers and Steel

CW: mentions of rape and domestic abuse

wait a minute... not me finishing this and finding out it was written by a man!?

okay i'm not saying men can't write about women and our struggles. BUT THIS BOOK TALKS ABOUT RAPE AND ABUSE!!!? like i feel like i've been catfished or something because there were poems where i almost teared up and connected with. but then there would be others that sounded so cheesy and cliche. I was almost not going to rate this because I don't like to rate poetry or nonfiction low. since they're normally so personal. But idk how I feel about this now that I know that this was written by a man...

P.s. It annoyed me how every poem ended with some kind of variation of “I am made of flowers I am made of steel...“

thanks you netgalley for an advanced e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.