TAPPED, yet unrooted: Poetic Word Slaughter is a memoir told in the language of memory itself—lyric, fractured, and fiercely alive. Instead of a traditional narrative, the book unfolds through spoken‑word‑style poems, each capturing a single moment in a life shaped by silence, rupture, and the stubborn will to endure.
Across these pieces, a childhood marked by dysfunction, neglect, and generational wounds slowly gives way to adulthood and the long work of reckoning. The story doesn’t move in straight lines; it moves the way memory does—returning, breaking open, stitching itself back together. Every poem stands as its own emotional truth, yet together they form a powerful autobiographical arc of survival and self‑reclamation.
At the heart of the book is a living family‑tree metaphor: roots that hold and roots that fail, branches that split, histories that echo across generations. What is inherited here is not only blood, but silence; not only connection, but the ache of disconnection.
Through this hybrid form—part narrative poetry, part literary nonfiction—the memoir asks how a life built from broken pieces can still be told whole. It explores how language can carry what memory scatters, and how voice can rise from the very places it was once denied.
TAPPED, yet unrooted invites readers into a raw, rhythmic reconstruction of one life, offering a story that is both deeply personal and universally human: the journey of finding one’s voice after a lifetime of being asked to disappear.
