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A book full of thoughts that any teenager can have. And while they may think that those thoughts are crazy, this book shows that they are totally normal, and most of all, okay to have.

Tekst achterflap

Growing up, from “just a kid” to becoming a teenager, is not for the weak. It is like falling into deep waters. Drowning, getting air, and being pulled under again. From my thirteenth to my fifteenth year of life. I found my way of getting air. Writing what I felt and creating art with it. My poetry, my grasps for air, are about everything a teenager can go through. During those first few years, not being a “kid” but a “teenager”. Not feeling what the world tells you that you should feel. I learned one important thing, while writing these 80 poems: It is okay to feel. I used to think “my mind is crazy” for thinking so much and such crazy things. But now, I can scream, “My mind is crazy.” Because fuck yeah, these crazy thoughts just made my dream come through. My own goddamn poetry book. So enjoy my crazy brain and feel.

Biografie

Nynke Vrancken is a Dutch girl. She wrote her first poem, at the age of thirteen. Without knowing that three years later, she would be publishing her own poetry book. She is now sixteen. The elderly would say “she is starting the prime of her life” and what Nynke would respond to that is, “I will know it, when I feel it.” And that describes her best. Feeling all there is: the curse but also the gift she has. Always feeling everything. And somehow, putting it into words, so that everybody can understand.

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