ORDER Debut collection: out Now
Skydiving without a parachute & other success stories
Skydiving Without A Parachute And Other Success Stories explores what it means to house multiple identities within a singular body, through a mixture of prose and poetry. Brooke acknowledges and celebrates the messy, the broken, even the unredeemable. With a focus on queerness, gender identity, abuse and addiction, from their own trial and error; they attempt to answer the hard questions, one stanza at a time. Most importantly though, Skydiving Without A Parachute And Other Success Stories aims to emphasize how good it feels to stay.
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Suzi Q Smith, Author of Poems for the End of the World
“In Skydiving Without a Parachute, a debut collection from Brooke Gerbers, we are invited to join the poet on a dig through heritage and memory and pulling at the clay with both hands to craft a new understanding of a future. Marked with bold and unflinching images, Gerbers’ voice emerges through a narrative that continues to open and draw the reader in closer through collapse, survival, the stories a body holds, and all the questions that remain.”
Poets Underground Press
“Gerbers’ writing is un-apologetically honest, with a unique ability to transform pain to poetry, and darkness into moments of profound clarity. The imagery is striking, the metaphors bold, and her voice, both vulnerable and defiant, resonates long after the final page.”
Dylah Ray, Author of Perennials, Owner of Petals and Pages
“Brooke’s debut poetry collection puts words to the complexities of inner healing and shows us how to love along the way.”