Placeholder text

Go to cart

Here and Gone - On Love, Loss, and Addiction

By Wiley, Z. L.

Here and Gone - On Love, Loss, and Addiction Poetry

Here and Gone - On Love, Loss, and Addiction

0 - Default Title
Description
In this collection of poems, Z.L. Wiley writes from the wreckage and reckoning that followed a two-and-a-half-year relationship forged in recovery and fractured by relapse. What begins as a love story slowly reveals itself as something more complex: a mirror of childhood wounds, survival strategies, and the quiet normalization of pain. These poems move through the aftermath of sexual abuse, addiction, and complex trauma with Wiley tracing the ache of loving and being loved by someone who cannot stay, the terror of watching self-destruction up close, and the psychic rupture of a suicide attempt. Wiley then explores her own patterns of reenactment, the ways we return to familiar harm because it once kept us alive, and the line between resilience and self-abandonment.
Yet this is not a book that lingers only in grief. Threaded throughout is a fierce devotion to beauty, tenderness, and truth. Wiley finds meaning in the mess, language in the unspeakable, and love even where it has been distorted. Ultimately, these poems reach toward recovery, not as a destination, but as a practice: learning how to imagine new ways of loving without erasing the past.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
76
Release Date:
2025-12-25
Publication Date:
2025-12-25
Publisher:
Wiley Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798349371219
Weight:
125 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
4 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out