Open-Heart Surgery

Both a collection of poetry and a journal, Open-Heart Surgery invites the reader to explore their creativity, while touching on themes such as loss, feminism, and love. Written by Johanna Leo and illustrated by Michelle Gómez, this book is an open invitation to sit down with your darkest parts and see them as they are. To pull lessons out of them, to alchemize them into art, and then let them go.

Open-Heart Surgery is a deep dive into every corner of the heart, and an invitation to welcome anything it might hold: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I lay on the surgical table,
perform open-heart surgery
on myself. These pieces are ugly.
They're red and raw and grimy,
dripping in all of their gore,
in all of their tainted
glory.

Atat o colectie de poezie, cat si un jurnal, Open-Heart Surgery invita cititorul sa-si exploreze creativitatea, atingand in acelasi timp teme precum pierderea, feminismul si dragostea. Scrisa de Johanna Leo si ilustrata de Michelle Gómez, aceasta carte este o invitatie deschisa pentru a va aseza cu cele mai intunecate parti si a le vedea asa cum sunt.