{"product_id":"ten-years-of-healing-words-for-a-fracturing-world-9781068123801","title":"Ten Years of Healing Words for a Fracturing World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA debut collection ten years in the making: one poet's reckoning with breakdown, grief, and the long work of coming home to himself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSébastien Prud'Homme spent a decade writing his way through crisis: the end of a skating dream, romances carried through Quebec's cityscapes and countryside, a psychiatric hospitalization, a one-way flight from Montreal to Vancouver, and the death of a close friend. Together these upheavals cracked his identity open. These poems are how he put it back together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTen Years of Healing Words for a Fracturing World\u003c\/em\u003e gathers nineteen poems, some drawn from real events and some imagined. They move outward from private ruptures: toward a wealthy city's indifference to its unhoused, the hatred and extremism of the present moment, and a night beneath the trees of Stanley Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book opens beside a fire with an Elder, wolves howling nearby, and closes floating in the immensity of the universe. Indigenous spirituality and the land beneath the city run through it: a fireside prophecy, powwows echoing through the rain, a shaman's ceremony, all met by a poet who writes, as he says in his own land acknowledgment, as a guest. Between them come ice rinks, cherry blossoms, atmospheric rivers, a villanelle, and imagery of mending (gold, solder, flame) in which scars are proof of survival rather than shame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are poems that trust readers with real wreckage and still insist on tenderness. Prud'Homme writes directly about mental illness, homelessness, and inequality without losing his ear for image. \"\u003cem\u003eWest Coast One-Way Flight\u003c\/em\u003e\" ends: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking off in a corridor of light\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith collisions in my thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd bruises in my words\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of confessional, lyric, narrative, and witness poetry, and anyone who has survived a breakdown, buried someone too young, felt different, or tried to build a self worth living in, this collection offers honest company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSébastien Prud'Homme is a Québécois poet writing in English. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sebastien Prud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781068123801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.14d","brand":"S\u0026#195;\u0026#169;bastien Prud'homme","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514349281461,"sku":"9781068123801","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781068123801.jpg?v=1791903746","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ten-years-of-healing-words-for-a-fracturing-world-9781068123801","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}