This collection of poems is meant for women and mothers to feel seen and heard while reading its pages. With her healing words, Amber Awni shares her experience with postpartum depression and marriage, bringing a light for other moms to find and follow when they are feeling lost.

Feminism bites the patriarchy with ferocity in this book of prose. The readers will find themselves ravenous for the words that march on each page, savoring each letter as it sinks into their brains.

The messages throughout the book will ruminate and digest slowly, leaving the readers full of thoughts and feelings to process after the book is finished. exploited labor (revised): a collection of poetry is Amber Awni’s second publication.

ode to mom guiltyou sly fox you scissored-tongue devil you know exactly what to say to me you know how to breathe down my neck until i can’t take it anymore you have this strange way of sticking to my memory like toffee to my teeth sometimes i think you will be the lover to lick me down to my marrow you keep me up at night but i wake up every morning trying to be better because of you. .