Survival Takes a Wild Imagination: Poems
"I am tired of hurting, but I am not tired of healing."
In this brave and blistering poetry collection, Fariha Róisín lays bare the body, the wound, and the long road to healing. Survival Takes a Wild Imagination is a reclamation of softness after trauma, a declaration of autonomy, and a fierce prayer for survival in a world that often demands silence from those who suffer.
Róisín writes from the margins with tenderness, with rage, and with startling clarity. These are poems of generational pain, spiritual hunger, and queer, Muslim womanhood. Through grief, sensuality, and sacred ritual, Róisín charts a way forward that is both deeply personal and defiantly communal. This is not a collection that flinches. It howls, weeps, and sings until something breaks open.
📗 In The Mood For…
Healing
Each poem holds space for sorrow, and still reaches toward the light.
✅ Names trauma, depression, and survival with radical honesty
✅ Offers emotional sanctuary for those learning how to live again
Reconnecting with My Soul
Grief is sacred here, and so is joy.
✅ Intertwines spiritual yearning with sensual embodiment
✅ Invites reflection on the divine, ancestry, and the unseen forces within us
📘 Stories About…
Pain, Suffering & Recovery
This collection doesn’t avoid pain. It honors the full, raw truth of it.
✅ Explores survival after abuse, mental illness, and cultural dislocation
✅ Celebrates nonlinear recovery, self-forgiveness, and emotional resilience
The Unknown or Unseen
So much of this book dwells in the liminal where the spiritual, emotional, and ancestral meet.
✅ Engages with faith, intuition, and metaphysical inheritance
✅ Uses poetry to express what can’t be neatly said, only felt