"Disclaimer: I know Annie, she is a friend of mine and I wrote a play about her life. That being said I bought this book and read it straight through in one sitting . I expected to know everything that was going to be in it. But this book and the poems and stories in it are so personal and heartfelt and heart breaking and life affirming and tragic and painful and hopeful and inspiring all at the same time, that I learned even more about her. This not just a book for women, or survivors of violence, or Annie's friends, or poem-ophiles. It is book that has the ability to speak to anyone and everyone."