Urban Bedlam: Poetry From A Soul On Fire
By Lyn Valerie
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About this ebook
Urban Bedlam: Poetry From a Soul On Fire is a raw, unadulterated look into Black society and American culture as they exist today, through the lens of an observant twenty-something Black woman.
An unfiltered collection of emotion transcribed into passionate verses, Urban Bedlam seeks to awaken and inspire the light and love in our hearts, shunning what may be commonplace in society to do what's right.
From romance to redemption, revelation to reawakening, the poems in Urban Bedlam have a definitive fire emanating from every stanza, screaming from the page in a sensual anomaly of written spoken word.
Lyn Valerie
Born in 1984 in the unforgiving city of Baltimore, MD, Lyn Valerie has always held a deep communion with the under served. A testament in upward mobility, her childhood took her from impoverished neighborhoods to fancy Baltimore suburbs, allowing her to become fully aware of the dichotomy of race and class in terms of social acceptance. Through the course of her teenaged years, Lyn Valerie experienced such life-altering experiences as rape and physical abuse, transforming the negativity into poignant verses of which are shared to those in need. Lyn Valerie has ghostwritten and published a number of articles on social commentary and race politics through various online forums. She currently works as a freelance writer, highlights as an online spoken word poet, and serves as a mouthpiece for women who have suffered domestic abuse and rape.
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