poems

She also shared her experiences in her book, Pretty Boys are Poisonous, through two poems.

The singer, who was formerly known as Marina and the Diamonds, had never had an interest in poems.

She memorized poems such as “Still I Rise” as if she were “taking notes on my impending womanhood.”

“The leaves represent the cycle of life and death, yet he continued to work on the body of poems until his own death in 1892,” Navarro wrote of Whitman.

“Physical death, we all know and write poems about; then there’s the kind when people stop caring about you; and the worst kind is when you stop caring for yourself.”