I Am Made of Departures
Some journeys are measured in miles. Others in the distance between who you were and who the world asked you to become.
I Am Made of Departures is a raw, honest, and deeply human poetry collection exploring what it means to exist between worlds - between cultures, between identities, between the country that made you and the country that changed you.
Ambreen Kazim writes from the inside of an experience that millions carry but few have the language to name. The particular loneliness of belonging everywhere and nowhere at once. Of learning the customs but never quite feeling the rhythm. Of translating yourself, daily, for rooms that were never built with you in mind.
Across six parts, these poems move through identity and displacement, race and faith, the invisible labour of women, the cost of being othered, and the long, imperfect journey back to yourself. They speak to the woman who has spent a lifetime explaining her name. To the daughter of departure who left everything familiar for the possibility of becoming. To the person who has been told, in a hundred different ways, that they are not quite enough - and who refuses, finally, to believe it.
This is not a book about being lost.
It is a book about what you find when you stop trying to arrive and begin, instead, to understand that the in-between was always the destination.
For everyone who has ever been too foreign for here and too changed for there. For everyone who carries more than one flag inside them. This book belongs to you.
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