break your glass slippers

break your glass slippers is a confessional free-verse poetry collection by Amanda Lovelace, written with ladybookmad and continuing the fairy-tale framework of Lovelace's "you are your own fairy tale" work. The collection takes the familiar iconography of fairy tales — glass slippers, princesses waiting to be rescued, happily-ever-afters handed down by someone else — and turns it toward questions of self-worth and independence.

Structured in short, spare poems in Lovelace's signature style, the collection moves through themes of past hurt, self-doubt, and the deliberate work of rebuilding a sense of self that doesn't depend on external validation or rescue. As with her other collections, the poems draw on lived emotional experience rather than narrative plot, favoring accessible, direct language over dense imagery.

The book will appeal most to readers already familiar with Lovelace's confessional, Instagram-era poetry style and its focus on feminism, healing, and self-empowerment.