The Bones Below - by Sierra Demulder (Paperback)

About the Book

National Slam Champion poet performs and teaches with the release of her first book of hard-hitting, haunting poetry.

Book Synopsis

In this searing collection, Sierra DeMulder strips away the comfortable fictions we tell ourselves about love, grief, and identity, replacing them with something far more precious - unvarnished truth. Like a cartographer of the heart's hidden territories, she maps the spaces between ecstasy and anguish, between the person we show the world and the one we meet in the mirror at 3 AM.

DeMulder's verses are love letters written in scar tissue, celebrations carved from survival. With the precision of a surgeon and the courage of a confessor, she excavates those moments we all try to bury - the ones that shape us, haunt us, heal us - and holds them to the light. Her queer perspective illuminates universal truths through a prismatic lens, revealing how our deepest wounds and most radiant joys are often two sides of the same coin.

This isn't just poetry; it's permission - to break open, to love fiercely, to claim space in a world that often demands silence. Each poem is an act of resistance against easy answers and artificial boundaries, offering instead a raw, revelatory honesty that leaves readers both shattered and somehow more whole. DeMulder reminds us that to be human is to contain multitudes: beauty and wreckage, laughter and grief, the sacred and the profane, all dancing together in the same skin.

Review Quotes

"Sierra DeMulder possesses the most important quality a young writer can have, a unique voice. That voice exploded onto the national spoken word scene, moving her rapidly up the ranks as one of the most exciting performance poets working today. Sierra uses subtlety and tension the way photographers use angle. She will eat your heart with a spoon." - Karen Finnyfrock

"...violently passionate and sweet, deftly moving between the two modes." - The Lamron, SUNY Geneseo

"...intensely personal." - Huffington Post

About the Author

Sierra DeMulder is an internationally recognized poet, educator, and podcast host. She is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, a five-time published author (The Bones Below, New Shoes on a Dead Horse, We Slept Here, Today Means Amen, and Ephemera), and the co-host of Just Break Up, a globally popular advice podcast that has been downloaded more than 4 million times. Sierra lives in upstate New York with her wife and daughter.