Gabrielle Joy Lessans \'s debut poetry collection Bread Of revisits buried and often mortifying memories of self-mutilation, emotional abuse, drug use, sexual assault, social pressure, and misery as a means of self-excavation.
The book\'s vertical movement can be understood as a quest of sorts, a way of reckoning wi.
In this way, the autobiographical Bread Of is a multilayered processing of shame that feeds on itself when left untended.
Gabrielle Joy Lessans \'s debut poetry collection Bread Of revisits buried and often mortifying memories of self-mutilation, emotional abuse, drug use, sexual assault, social pressure, and misery as a means of self-excavation