letters to the person i was

By Sana Abuleil

From Scribd: About the Book

A collection of poetry focused on forgiveness, reflection, and self-love, Letters to the Person I was a powerful book that will uplift you and remind you of how important your life is, even when you're broken. Sana Abuleil is a wonderful poet who captures the spirit of everything we'd want to tell our young selves about the world. The words that many of us wish were said to us but never were.

As you read through the poems, you watch Abuleil tell her story through the things she needed to hear when she was struggling, breaking, bleeding. It reflects her feelings of responsibility to be the one to say these things, which were never said to her to everyone else, and reminds us that there are people out there who care. Reinforcing the idea that life is worth living, Abuleil presents a view of the world that is critical and protective of her community and the people around her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release date: Feb 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781524860837

Reviews for letters to the person i was

[Allison Peti · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a solid poetry collection with reflections on experiences, emotions, relationships, and self. The poems varied in degrees of rawness. I appreciated my time inside the author’s head, heart, and words.

[NurulSiqah Hussin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Sana Abuleil blamed herself for the terrible thing that happened when she was a little girl. After 12 years, she finally realized that she was not responsible, she tried her best, and she needed to put herself first. This book is a book where she put all behind her. It is then the learning process for her about healing, means to forgive, to move on, and love. This is the author's letters to her younger self.

The book contains four chapters: The Innocence, The Refusing, The Understanding, and The Growing. I love how she can describe her emotions through poems, and I could connect to the author in some of the writings. However, poetry is not easy to read, and I found myself rereading some of the pages because it was not easy to follow and understand when the poems are long. I got confused with the book theme while reading these 222 pages of the poetry collection. And I think this is more like a journal expressing her own emotions in an unstructured way rather than a poetry book.

I was quite sorry because I want to entirely like this book. It was a decent read but didn’t work immensely well for me. Nevertheless, I will look forward to more collection by this author in the future.

Highly recommend this book to anyone who can be related to the idea of heartbreak and healing. You’ll learn to be okay with it all, but also realizing that not okay is okay, too. Please be reminded that this is not a poetry collection that you can read in one sitting.

[Gina Marie Andaya · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book contains words that speak to me. I love it.