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Elegy to Myself is a powerful debut collection about grief, identity, and the quiet battles we fight within ourselves. Moving from the skyscrapers and grit of New York to the desert sands of the Gulf and the faded grandeur of Buenos Aires, A.K. Degirmenci maps the emotional landscapes that shape us-memory, family, loneliness, politics, and the shadowed corners of the soul.With sharp imagery and lyrical depth, these poems offer an intimate portrait of a life marked by resilience, longing, and transformation. A raw, beautiful, and resonant book for anyone who has ever carried invisible weight or searched for themselves in the world.

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A.K. Degirmenci was born in 1989 and raised in New York City. Hehas a love of arts, culture, travel, history, and food. He completed hisB.A. in History and Adolescent Education at Hunter College in2013, and his M.A. in History from Queens College in 2017. Lifebrought him to a radical decision in 2018 to resign from his job as aNYC public school teacher and pursue a Ph.D. in History at KoçUniversity in Istanbul, Turkey. Due to the pandemic, he movedinstead to Kuwait, where the Gulf desert life inspired some of thiswork. Like a cycle, he is back in New York, teaching middleschoolers in Brooklyn - for now.

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