What Remembers My Name

About the Book

What remains when the fire has gone out

What Remembers My Name is a celestial contemporary poetry collection about identity, self-discovery, desire, anger, love, and the strange freedom of deciding who you will become after the turmoil has passed.

Set in the emotional in-between, the collection turns toward stars, stories, imagined worlds, memory, and solitude in search of perspective. It explores what happens when the fire has gone out and there is finally enough quiet to look at your life as a whole: what remains, what no longer belongs to you, and what you actually need when no one else is deciding for you.

Through an intimate and emotionally unguarded voice, the poems move through desire and devotion, heartbreak and acceptance, restless anger, and the realization that some versions of ourselves are meant to be remembered rather than rebuilt.

These poems do not ask the reader to recover who they were before. They look outward and inward instead, finding pieces of identity in distant stars, fictional worlds, other voices, and the small moments when the life in front of you begins to feel like something you can finally inhabit.

For readers drawn to emotionally intimate poetry, celestial imagery, self-discovery, love, anger, identity, and transformation, this collection speaks to the space between who you were and who you are becoming.

For readers of Nikita Gill, Amanda Lovelace, and Andrea Gibson, with echoes of Yrsa Daley-Ward’s sensuality and Anne Sexton’s confessional intensity.