Violetear Books | The Apple of Their Throat COVER REVEA...

The Apple of Their Throat COVER REVEAL

Let me introduce you to the cover of my debut poetry collection! I typically am against people on the cover, but this cover captures the heart of this book perfectly. I hope you love it as much as I do!

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The poems may be specific to my experience, but the emotion beneath them is universal. That is my hope, that you feel that universality when you read them. My partner, who is not religious, once told me that the poems he connected with most were the religious ones. That surprised me, but it also confirmed what I have always believed. When the emotion is true, the subject does not matter.

This book is about love, heartbreak, family, queerness, selfhood, and the beliefs we internalize to find our place in the world. I fell in love with the symbolism of fruit, how it is considered the birth of sin and how queer people have been called “fruit.” And while these poems can be read in any order, they do tell a story with a full arc from the first page to the last.

I want to explain everything about this book to you, but I think now I have to let it speak for itself.