{"product_id":"if-i-love-you-ivy-rozen-9798950070020","title":"If I Love You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdvance praise for \u003ci\u003eIf I Love You.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvy Rozen's \u003ci\u003eIf I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e leads us on a startling memoiristic journey through the trials of young womanhood, dropping luminous revelations on us like breadcrumbs through the dark wilderness of experience. Rozen delivers a clever blend of hyperreal imagery, precise rhyme, and offhanded idioms until we, too, shed comfort for love...for safety...for lust...for limerence... for our forever lost innocence. This brave and bright book keens with honesty, but ultimately whispers tenderly: \"If I love you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-L.J. Sysko, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Daughter of Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBattledore\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I want the maggots that eat us \/ to be fat and healthy, \/ full of me, and full of you,\" writes Ivy Rozen in her collection \u003ci\u003eIf I Love You. \u003c\/i\u003eThese lines serve as a testament to a fearless poet exploring trauma, love, heartbreak, and, most of all, survival. \u003ci\u003eIf I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e is a debut rooted in witness-one unafraid to look directly at pain while still searching for tenderness amid its wreckage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Dustin Brookshire, author of \u003ci\u003eFor All Of Us Faggots\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eContoured\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a voice that cuts deep and doesn't hold back, Ivy Rozen's new collection of poems will find their way under your skin and embed themselves there. They encompass reckoning with betrayal and family trauma-wounds so many of us know only all too well. The poems of \u003ci\u003eIf I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e scream and rage from their pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Hillary Gonzalez, author of \u003ci\u003eSeasons, Wild, Unfelt World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Osprey Nest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are poems of connection in all its forms. These are poems of love--fulfilled, unrequited, painful, peaceful, lost, found, \u0026amp; otherwise. If you've been broken open, keep reading. If you're looking to be broken open, keep reading. Ivy Rozen's poems will crack you open and build you back again, but you might not recognize the person you find when you finally close the back cover.\u003cp\u003e-Quinn Carver Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Bastard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you really want to know exactly how \/ I crawled from the ashes of my past, \/ I'm ready to talk about it.\" This is the beating heart of Ivy Rozen's book \u003ci\u003eIf I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection that claws its way to the core of survival. For the reader, \u003ci\u003eIf I Love Yo\u003c\/i\u003eu is a bleak mirror and a kind hand, a deep inward journey and a path back to the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Jessica L. Walsh, author of \u003ci\u003eBlowdown\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBook of Gods\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Grudges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading\u003ci\u003e If I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e is like opening a family photo album and finding a stash of laundered money. If you're looking to relish the process of rotting, to spy on family secrets from the nearest treehouse, to watch the life force hide in plain speech, this book is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Dylan Krieger, author of \u003ci\u003ePredators Welcome\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo One Is Daddy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting, emotionally charged book with an array of images that bound together and create a magnificent flow of poems. you'll be captivated with this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-john compton, author of \u003ci\u003ehouse as a cemetery\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003emy husband holds my hand because i may drift away \u0026amp; be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvy Rozen is an Asheville-based poet and free-expression advocate whose work has been published in \u003ci\u003eFine Art Globe, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChatham Life \u0026amp; Style\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, \u003ci\u003eEducation NC\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHot Pot\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, \u003ci\u003ePenmen Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAuvert \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine, Loblolly Press, and Bottlecap Press. Previously the senior editor of Black Mountain Press, Ivy was selected to judge the Elon University Historic Neighborhood's annual Primavera Poetry Contest for 2026 and recently founded the Midnight Draft Poetry Collective, which provides free resources to poets of all backgrounds. After her Free Verse residency in Vermont, Ivy served in AmeriCorps as well as on the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivy Rozen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798950070020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seed Bed Press, Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Ivy Rozen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997958451455,"sku":"9798950070020","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/if-i-love-you-ivy-rozen-9798950070020","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}