Adorned in Thorns

By: Bañuelos, Bry E.

Adorned in Thorns is the relentless blueprint for surviving sexual violence, reclaiming power, and refusing silence. This collection of confessional poetry-braided with true crime, lived testimony, and cultural examination-offers the uncompromising language needed to name what patriarchy demands we minimize and forget. Each piece becomes both a shard and a mirror: mapping the psychological architecture of harm, the aftershocks that rearrange identity, and the long, sacred labor of coming back to oneself. These poems do not look away. This book has a graphic content warning. They do not apologize to make the reader comfortable. Instead, the speaker insists on confronting rape culture, misogyny, generational damage, and social erasure directly-because only in naming it fully can we break it fully. This lyrical memoir reveals the grit, pain, rage, humor, intuition, and hard earned power that emerges when trauma is voiced instead of hidden. Adorned in Thorns reframes survivorship not as a wound to camouflage, but as a divine initiation, alchemizing harm into clarity, boundary, sovereignty, and unshakable identity. For every reader who has ever been told to endure quietly, doubt their memory, shrink their voice, or forgive before they were ready-this book is an altar, a weapon, and a testament to everything we are not meant to survive...yet do.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966337280
• ISBN13: 9781966337287
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Daxson Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"