Soul trash, space garbage - Michelle Awad

Written during a time of significant upheaval, Soul Trash, Space Garbage is a poetry collection for all of the messy things inside ourselves that we don't feel are worth committing to paper, or talking about, or confronting.

The trash of our souls, the cosmic garbage of our beings.

Its sections traverse three types of star death-from the death of relatively small to especially massive stars-exploring the beautiful, the tragic, and the bittersweet that comes with each of them as a metaphor for life, love, change, growth, sorrow, depression, destruction, joy, faith, and humanity.

Most of all, it is a collection about hope.

Soul Trash, Space Garbage gives us permission to see ourselves as celestial beings, as something magnificent and otherworldly, something that can neither be created nor destroyed-as something unapologetically infinite and imperfectly divine.