I Know Her Name: a poetry book from the pages of You Won't Know Her Name

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2021 | Fiction & Poetry

In the sixth grade, a girl’s life was turned upside down by a series of horrific bullying events.

In seventh grade, she wrote a book about it - You Won’t Know Her Name, a haunting novel told in poetry about a nameless girl who, along with her sister, undergoes the same events.

Now, she returns with a new poetry collection, featuring poems she wrote before, during, and after the creation of You Won’t Know Her Name. These poems are dark and unordered, expressing her pain and healing - everything that was, and wasn’t told in You Won’t Know Her Name.

And this time, The Girl does have a name: Shanti Hershenson.
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We don’t talk about the book
With a five letter nameless name

We don’t talk about what it means Or what it’s about

For “The Forbidden Book” is only a book of poetry And poems can do no wrong

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Published by

Apollo

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