A local high school English teacher and mother of three has added a second book of poems to her list of accomplishments.
Lindsay Soberano Wilson recently released her second full-length book of poems, titled Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues: Poems For Healing. It is aimed at helping readers “find peace in painful, messy, shameful parts of life unearthed at inconvenient times."
Included in the Barrie resident’s book, which was officially released on Thursday, Aug. 1, are poems about suicide, sexual assault, addiction, inter-generational trauma, domestic violence, Toronto '90s rave culture and a pandemic.
Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues finds light in the darkness, and the visual and lyrical poems shed light on hard truths while inspiring readers to “Dance Through the Dark” to find “Glimmers,” instead of tripping on triggers like the poem “I Tripped on a Wound Today.”
As the creator of Put It To Rest, a mental health online literary hub, Soberano Wilson says she believes in putting painful stories to rest by writing them out to let them go. Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues weaves in and out of childhood, coming of age, and adulthood on a healing journey to put the past behind, embrace the present, and trust the future.
The opening poem in the book I Call This Trauma, the author discovers that untying “knots” to fix everything is fruitless, eventually turning to acceptance in Hope, Are You There?
The book ultimately culminates in what the author calls a “heroic call to action to break up with victimhood to embrace trauma healing reflected in the beauty of the “northern lights.”
Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues is about making peace with grief and not letting the past define you, instead recreating a future that accepts that pain is a part of life and allows growth, explained Soberano Wilson.
