Help Me, I’m Here by Anastacia Helena Fenald

“Anastasia Helena Fenald captures meeting your inner teen angst with empathy and radical self-love. Help Me, I’m Here is a moving collection of poems that will hold your heart in a warm and validating embrace.”
-Oombi Solis Flores, author of (Be)longing from World Stage Press
Help Me, I'm Here: Poems to Myself is both a gloriously heartwarming, but also a painfully heartbreaking collection of personal call and response poems between Anastasia Helena Fenald's adolescent and adulthood selves. Her poems, or trios, focus on three separate voices: childhood, adulthood, and the sum total of who she is now. Witness the growth of her poetry written between the ages of 11 to 30, but also relish in the candid conversations of acknowledging and accepting the darkness that haunts us as we mature from child to adult.
Help Me, I'm Here is the epitome of hard-earned self-love, bringing the reader on a journey of self-discovery as Anastasia Helena Fenald becomes the adult her younger self has always needed--the person who loves her no matter what.
"But can’t our dream, Little Me,
be us in motion as we scribble little notes
and tuck them away for later reading?"
Excerpt from Our Dream