(Un)Wholesome

Chelsea Bartell's debut poetry collection, "(Un)Wholesome", is her purest and most heart-wrenching testament to her belief that immense growth happens after your afflictions. Bartell vividly captures her growing pains in order to guide her readers through theirs. She speaks fiercely on the importance of a woman's independence while, graphically, teaching her readers to demand the respect they deserve. To accept love that replenishes and nurtures and to discard those who aren't willing to reach those lengths. She hums from a swollen heart as she recovers from a love she thought would be the last only to find there were more lies than truths, more manipulation than there was love. She hashes out her anger with her absent father by using letters she wrote but could never send. Bartell wrote this book with the intention to heal the wounds of the human condition. After reading from cover to cover, she hopes you too, will come into your fullest truth, despite the anxiety, lack of, anger, frustration, and confusion people believe hinders our growth.