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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
Rhonda Hero has written a poignant collection of poems in which she bares her soul and grows to a personal awakening. In "She Has Awaken" the reader will be taken from severe instances of childhood abuse to a gradual understanding that life can still be a meaningful and rewarding journey. The author was born into an alcoholic and abusive family. She watched her father shoot her mother and was then sent into foster care where she developed a cocoon in order to protect herself. As a teenager, she began to write about her ordeals and this writing commenced a prolonged movement toward healing. Through brief words and feeling, the author tells her life story and in doing so, she begins the journey back to full personhood. In the poem 'My Name is Shame' the reader is introduced to the various mental inflictions which imprinted themselves upon the mind of the impressionable child who developed immature but effective means of surviving. In 'No One Knew' we are instructed as to the various forms of abuse and neglect which plagued the author and others like her. In 'The Night She fell' we begin to understand the sheer terror of the child as she witnessed the shooting of her own mother. In 'She Has Awaken' we get a glimpse into how difficult it must have been to begin to reach out and to begin to hope and dream that life could be anything other than a series of torturous experiences.
These are hard-to-read poems but well worth the experience to those who truly want to understand the heart of those whom society has abandoned.
