A beautiful mixture of pain, love, and hope in one amazing book!" - Melissa H.Have you ever looked pretty on the outside and felt ugly inside? If you have, Between Seams is for you! Diving deep within the stages of pain, Between Seams is a new poetry book that breaks down how we feel and deal with emotional distress during the infancy, middle, relapse, transitional, and ending stages.Denial or shock - UnravelingAnger - ThreadingRelapse - KnottedAcceptance and healing - MendingHealed - SeamThis book opens our eyes to the reality that life is a commonality that we're all living together, no matter how different it seems. Honestly, it's more than just another poetry book, it's life living out loud!- A Bit More About The Book -From K.D. Gates, bestselling author of The Good Poet, comes Between Seams, a relatable and energetic collection of poetry about the hidden parts of life that we don't see. It's in the in-betweens, those deeply hidden stitches of life, that we hide from the world. It's in the unaligned seams where we lose ourselves to the painful memories of love, lust, abuse, abandonment, and self-sabotage.Between Seams, illustrated by K.D. Gates is a five-chapter poetry book of unraveling, threading, mending, knotted, and seams. An exploration of human emotion in its most excellent form.Because as individuals, life seems different on the inside.-Peek Inside-what are you going to do with me asi unravel before your eyes-sit, wait for death, hope to die?what are you going to do with me?- asked lifethose rarely spokenyet salvaged moments that we hide inside.- unaligned seamsAbout K.D. GatesK.D. Gates is a poet, author, mother, and visionary. Writing and reading poetry since childhood, she found a sense of relief, a place to escape the pain of abuse, trauma, and fear. Reading titles by poetry greats helped K.D. craft her rebellious style of writing. Now, the bestselling author of The Good Poet, she brings you a vibrant collection of poetry that touches on love, lust, life, fear, joy, and hope.