Wannabe Whitman

Wannabe Whitman is a poetry collection about what it means to feel everything and somehow survive feeling it. Through poems of grief, love, heartbreak, memory, mental health, and growing up, Izablle Kotary turns the things hardest to say aloud into something worth reading aloud. Equal parts confession, mourning, and coming-of-age, Wannabe Whitman is not an attempt to become the next great poet. It is an attempt to become herself; to leave behind a verse that is entirely, imperfectly, and unapologetically her own.