Feral Miracle Second Edition

By Giulia Viti

A collection of poems about Love, healing from mental illness and finding allies within the natural and spiritual worlds. This second edition contains two new poems!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Giulia Viti
• Release date: May 31, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224846054

Giulia Viti

Giulia Viti was born and educated in Italy, and has travelled widely across Europe and the US. She has worked in helping and healing professions. Her poems are a practical exploration of shamanic and trauma-informed philosophies, recovery from sexual trauma and life as a neurodivergent woman. The first edition of Feral Miracle was published in early 2023.  

Book preview

Introduction

I initially thought that this collection would be a chronological report of the biggest season of healing I ever had so far. That was quite naive.

These poems have a life of their own and, once again, knew exactly in which order they wanted to be presented. I did not argue.

I started writing at the end of 2019, when my entire world crumbled and I found myself starting from scratch - not just my business, but who I was as a person (and especially as a woman). Somewhere along the way I found out about being neurodivergent and having a fairly severe case of CPTSD - which I had pinned to only being an anxious attachment style. Since then, many versions of me have emerged and dissolved, and every time I find myself closer to my Truth. I wonder if you can pick up all those versions in the different poems. I wonder if you’ll feel attached to any of them, if they’ll elicit your projections, if you’ll find them relatable. My pleasure for writing comes from the idea that art exists to make us feel something, and that even if we don’t like what we feel, we learn to associate emoting with something that has its own kind of beauty.

That also implies that there is no wrong way of reading this book. Devour it cover to cover or pick a poem at random until you have got them all. If you have a strong opinion on how poetry books should be read, I encourage you to try the other way, just to see.

Because more than anything, this book and my journey are about fucking around and finding out, and I recognise the immense power of doing that. And if it’s comfort you need now, then do it your way and I hope that you find the peace that you are looking for within these pages.

Lastly, my journey has been full of other humans. They didn’t always help, but they all contributed. And some of them became my chosen family, and showed myself to me in ways that would not have been possible on my own.

I understand the lone wolf narrative…I am still someone who needs a lot of space and time for myself. But exploring sharing and community and healthy attachment has been (and is) one of the most beautiful and important journeys of my life. In many of these poem you see an old paradigm and a new one battling inside of me, trying to make sense of new notions through the trauma and the pain.

I didn’t think much about humans. I saw most of them as creatures that needed my help, or could potentially harm me or validate me, nothing more. And I love that, in contrast, most of the poems are about humans that changed my life and healed my heart so radically that the only way to explain it is poetry.

The other poems are about me and falling in love with myself. Seeing myself for the first time. It’s a wild ride and I hope you enjoy living it vicariously through this art.

Love,

Luna

Find me

I am the kindness of waves

that would eat you alive but carry you

home

instead.

I am the rustling of paws in the forest.

Don't hold your projections of me

fear me as you would the Bear