{"product_id":"we-become-by-saying-a-beginners-guide-to-bravery-ruin-and-repair-9798254340584","title":"We Become by Saying: A Beginner's Guide to Bravery, Ruin, and Repair","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mark Araujo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Death, Grief, Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Become by Saying\u003c\/i\u003e is a spoken-word poetry collection that refuses to be polished. Written by Mark Araujo - art director, immigrant, survivor, and reluctant optimist - these poems were born at stupid o'clock, on dog walks, and in the wreckage of a life that looked fine from the outside and felt like a GP waiting room from within.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross four movements - \u003ci\u003eEphemerality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLaying Odds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSub-Basement\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReinvention\u003c\/i\u003e - Araujo maps the terrain of grief, breakups, childhood trauma, immigration, job rejection, and the slow, unglamorous work of becoming. The language is raw, rhythmic, and irreverent: equal parts confession and comedy, tenderness and fury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help book. There is no five-step programme. What there is instead is company - the kind that sits with you in the dark without changing the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who has ever felt too much, not enough, or somewhere in between: \u003ci\u003eWe Become by Saying\u003c\/i\u003e is proof that the cracks don't have to be hidden. They can be gilded. They can glow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Architecture of Scabs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are taught to keep our skeletons in closets\u003cbr\u003eas if bones don't deserve the sunlight, \u003cbr\u003eas if the rattling is something we should apologise for\u003cbr\u003eat dinner parties while passing the salt.\u003cbr\u003eBut I've spent too long trying to be a silent museum.\u003cbr\u003eI've got trauma that doesn't just sit still;\u003cbr\u003eit paces the floor like a nervous father in a waiting room, \u003cbr\u003eit chews its fingernails until the cuticles are just\u003cbr\u003ea memory of where the skin used to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI started writing because my ribcage felt like a birdcage\u003cbr\u003eand the bird was tired of singing for its supper.\u003cbr\u003eI put the hurt on paper because ink is cheaper than a haunting, \u003cbr\u003eand if you look closely at the margins, \u003cbr\u003eyou'll see where the pen nearly went through the page.\u003cbr\u003eThat's where the bravery lives.\u003cbr\u003eIt's not a superhero costume or a stoic jawline;\u003cbr\u003eit's just the messy, loud, inconvenient habit\u003cbr\u003eof refusing to vanish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo here is the ruin.\u003cbr\u003eHere is the slow, tectonic shift of the repair.\u003cbr\u003eIt's a guide for the people who have been broken\u003cbr\u003einto enough pieces to realise\u003cbr\u003ethat we are not puzzles meant to be solved, \u003cbr\u003ewe are songs meant to be heard.\u003cbr\u003eI'm saying it out loud now.\u003cbr\u003eBecause we don't just exist.\u003cbr\u003eWe become\u003cbr\u003eby saying.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775290589335,"sku":"9798254340584","price":1124.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798254340584.webp?v=1777989460","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/we-become-by-saying-a-beginners-guide-to-bravery-ruin-and-repair-9798254340584","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}