Write Bloody Publishing, paperback
Publication Date: October 29, 2026
Publisher Marketing:
Body, Burn Slowly is a devastatingly honest poetry collection for anyone carrying quiet trauma, unspoken horror, and the heavy weight of nights they can never speak about. Written with deadpan precision by veteran firefighter-EMT Suzanne La Follette, this book speaks the plain, unvarnished truth about what happens when the human body carries other people’s worst days—and what it takes to survive when your own world catches fire. La Follette treats trauma, gore, and heartbreak with a quiet, matter-of-fact clarity that makes every line land with full force. Body, Burn Slowly captures the reality of growing up queer, facing mortality, and holding on when the ground drops out from under you. Like its author, this book offers a kind of rescue to its readers. Proving that while trauma and death are inevitable, like a grave, love also stays, holding it all.
