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Thanks to @harperperennial for sending me a copy of I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer for review! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I Hope This Finds You Well is Kate Baer’s second poetry collection, and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to since reading her first! This collection of erasure poems turns missives from strangers into reflections on how we communicate. As a writer and internet presence, Baer is inundated with the types of messages you’d expect she’d receive as a writer and as a woman: propositions, criticisms, weight loss ads, and messages from readers. I love how simple and subversive this collection is: setting the original message by her transformation of it creates something that is more than the sum of its parts — it is an examination of internet anonymity, a love letter to women, and a reminder that we cannot control what others say, but we can choose whether to give their words weight. You can check out @katejbaer’s work here on insta or pick up a copy of I Hope This Finds You Well when it publishes on November 9th! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: I’m holding a kindle displaying the ebook cover of I Hope This Finds You Well. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CVnXTNxLn0V/