Completing Me - Paperback

by X. B. Alloway (Author)

Remember life at nine years old. The simplicity of childhood starts to open up into a larger awareness of the world and one's place in it. This can be both exciting and overwhelming, and feelings of isolation and confusion are common. In this unique poetic conception, X. B. Alloway returns to the experiences and memories of her nine-year-old self with poems about first love, conflict with parents and siblings, the transition from elementary to middle school, and other themes preteens will relate to, helping them to see that they are not alone.
Alloway's poems are imbued with her hindsight wisdom while remaining true to the tone and questions of a nine-year-old. Ultimately her message is an essential one for people of all ages: No matter what you're going through, it always gets better. You just have to take life day by day, moment by moment, and poem by poem.

Author Biography

X. B. Alloway has a bachelor's degree from Troy University in political science with a concentration in international politics and a minor in philosophy, and as of December 2017 completed her master's degree through their online program. She began writing in poetry at the age of nine and was influenced by growing up in Georgia and Alabama, where she was accepted to the Alabama School of Math and Science. This is her first of three forthcoming books of poetry.