I Am Maria
My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home
A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days.
I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver’s own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak and healing.
Her deeply personal poems address life’s transitions, challenges, successes and failures. Vulnerable and deeply moving, Shriver’s words are a collection of her life experiences woven into poetry to inspire everyone on their own journey. It is also an invitation for readers to write their own personal poetry, reclaiming the art as accessible to everyone and a tool to look within.
I Am Maria is a roadmap for anyone trying to shed the labels, layers, and armor that holds us back from creating a wildly authentic and meaningful life.
“I never imagined writing poetry would help me embark
On a journey deep into myself
I never imagined that everything I sought or thought I needed
Was within me all along”
—from I Am Maria
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April 1, 2025 -
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- ISBN: 9780593653401
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Booklist
March 1, 2025
After a demanding, award-winning journalism career and tireless work as an activist on many fronts, Shriver has dedicated herself to writing and publishing books that illuminate paths to self-care. Here she shares the key to how she found a way forward after devastating losses: writing poetry. Not literary poetry, but wholly personal poetry expressing and exploring "raw, authentic" emotions; poetry as an ""awe-generating craft"" and a ""healing tool."" This collection is a "journey in poetry" that chronicles her quest to understand her struggles and embrace her true self. Shriver begins with a powerful summary of her often-lonely childhood as a member of the legendary, tragedy-afflicted Kennedy clan, her parents' deaths, and her 25-year marriage to body builder, actor, and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, with whom she had four children, and its excruciatingly public detonation. Shriver's openhearted, easily read poems, with universal feelings at their core, chart her painful yet liberating self-analysis leading to self-love. The goal of her poetry is "to embrace the whole of life . . . to grow and evolve."" She encourages everyone to do the same.COPYRIGHT(2025) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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