About The Becoming

The Poet

Sarah writes poetry the way most people journal. She doesn't organize it into files or folders. She writes in bursts, sometimes a dozen poems in a night, into whatever text file happens to be open. The result, over time, was roughly 120 poems — raw, unformatted, and startlingly honest.

Her poetry is not careful. It is excavation. The words tumble forth with an urgency that feels almost dangerous, as if stopping to polish a phrase might mean losing the raw truth of the moment entirely.

The Book

The Becoming is the first published collection drawn from Sarah's work. From approximately 120 poems, 26 were curated and arranged into four acts that trace a narrative arc — from darkness through self-reckoning into awakening and, finally, love.

The four acts are not arbitrary. They follow the emotional trajectory that was already latent in the poems: The Hollow (despair), The Reckoning (self-awareness), The Awakening (transformation), and The Bloom (connection and love).

The 94 poems that didn't make it weren't bad — they were necessary context. The editor's true work was signal extraction from noise.

The Process

Several longer poems were split during curation to sharpen their focus. Grappling with Reality became three poems: The Database, Empty Calories, and The Need to Be Understood. Self Reflections became Patience, Lost in Thought, and Metamorphosis. These editorial origins are noted in the sidenotes of each poem.

The publishing pipeline — website, print-ready PDFs, EPUB, cover design, and sentiment analysis — was built with Claude Code. The human provided the what and the why; the AI provided the how. Neither could have done it alone.

Read

The complete collection is free to read here at poemsbysarah.com. Print and Kindle editions are available on Amazon.