She told Bustle, 'If there’s one thing I'm trying to do with this particular poetry series, it's to show the rich inner lives of women with a focus on our hidden everyday struggles'. Lovelace said the book is about the abuse she has faced in her life, and added that the book was going to be uncomfortable for people. Series and themes Īccording to one reviewer, The Princess Saves Herself in This One and the accompanying volumes 'take some of the most recognized female archetypes - princess, witch, and soon, mermaid - and retells their narratives in a modern, feminist, empowered way'. In the final section Lovelace encourages the reader to believe that they can deal with anything. The third section of poems, in which the princess stands up to face the dragon, deals with the grief she faced in losing her mother, and how she felt when she fell in love with the right person. They are represented in the ideas of the 'big bad wolf' who has hurt her in the past and the dragons who have terrorized her, as well as talking about the death of her mother and her sister. In the second section of poems the princess confronts the issues that have come in her life.

This section ends when the princess locks herself away in a tower and waits for a prince to come and rescue her. It goes through her relationships with family members, her younger life, and her past assault. The first section focuses mainly on the author, and her battles in the past.

The Princess Saves Herself in This One has four sections, each showing the princess's progression in agreement with an overlying theme. The book won the Goodreads Choice Award for poetry in 2016. It is the first installment in a series called Women Are Some Kind of Magic, which focuses on the resilience of women. Its narrative arc follows a princess who is learning to become her own savior the semi-autobiographical book's author is the princess. The Princess Saves Herself in This One is the debut collection of poetry by American poet Amanda Lovelace, first self-published in 2016 through CreateSpace and then published by Andrews McMeel Publishing in 2017.

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