{"product_id":"becoming-mary-a-split-tongue-reckoning-in-verse-paperback","title":"Becoming Mary: A Split-Tongue Reckoning in Verse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Dent\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Somewhere in the beginning, affection arrived with a ledger.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the deep hollows of Appalachia, silence isn't quiet. It breathes. It remembers. And eventually, it shatters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecoming Mary is a fierce, Southern Gothic reckoning told in raw, split-tongue verse. This is not a postcard of the mountains; it is an excavation of a country built on inheritance and fracture. Here, family names arrive like a blessing and a warning in the same breath. Girlhood is a lesson learned in dim rooms and borrowed light, where love and harm are braided into the very same thread. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving through the wreckage of trauma, addiction, family, love, healing, and religious weight, these poems map a living weather system of the soul. Nothing arrives cleanly. Nothing leaves untouched. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut beneath the coal-dark devotion and the kitchens that remember every hunger lies a persistent, dangerous tenderness. This is a refusal to be reduced to ruin. This is what happens when a burden long carried is finally set down-and the world refuses to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Healing began \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ewhen I stopped \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ecollecting debts.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who has ever loved a place or tried to make a home in people they couldn't fully survive, Becoming Mary offers a lantern for the long walk home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Becoming Mary: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Stunning. Seriously, some of the best poetry I've read in a long time...evocative, and carrying emotions a reader has to unpack.\" - Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Crank\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46627933585605,"sku":"9798234105912","price":23.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/2BXlx9ZMHn9798234105912.webp?v=1785296720","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/becoming-mary-a-split-tongue-reckoning-in-verse-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}