Garden

Maya Schwartz's debut Garden is not a first step, but rather the first leap of faith of many more to come. In this poetry collection, Maya displays a profound rawness and vulnerability as she addresses many of the struggles she's faced throughout her life, such as mental health battles and coming to terms with her own identity. Garden explores what it is to feel everything deeply, love with an overwhelming intensity, and question the world and the way things are. These poems serve as a cathartic tribute to the coming of age process and simultaneously a lament and a celebration of what it means to be a teenage girl in the modern world.