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Excerpts From the Medicine Cabinet

Paperback – November 18, 2025
By Emmett Ferree

Emmett Ferree’s Excerpts From the Medicine Cabinet is a raw, intimate poetry collection that examines the weight of the past and the many forms of trauma we carry—physical, emotional, spiritual, and everything in between. Presented in paperback, these poems explore how identity is shaped, wounded, and reconstructed through experiences of mental health struggles, LGBTQ+ violence, and religious trauma.

Through sharp imagery and unflinching honesty, Ferree confronts the lingering echoes of childhood, the scars that never fully close, and the ways the past creeps into the present despite our efforts to outrun it. Each poem is a fragment, a confession, a reclamation—an attempt to understand the “why” behind who we become and how we survive.

Excerpts From the Medicine Cabinet doesn’t offer easy answers or tidy resolutions. Instead, it holds space for pain, truth, and the complicated process of healing. Ferree invites readers to sit with discomfort, to recognize their own bruised histories, and to find solace in the shared acknowledgment that the past remains a force in our lives—no matter how desperately we try to leave it behind.

A compelling addition for readers of queer poetry, trauma narratives, and emotionally resonant verse, this collection is available through Queerazon.com, your source for LGBTQ+ literature, indie poetry, and voices that challenge and illuminate.