Light Filters In: Poems

Caroline Kaufman

Aug 2019 · HarperCollins · Narrated by Caroline Kaufman

About this audiobook

In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. 

In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are.

This collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Light Filters In will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike.

it’s okay if some things

are always out of reach.

if you could carry all the stars

in the palm of your hand,

they wouldn’t be

half as breathtaking

Ratings and reviews

I wished I could afford this book I listen to the first nine months of it.and I had tears running down my cheeks. I can remember as young as the age of 5 I didn’t know right from wrong at tender age. When I turned 12 I had a teacher as why I was missing school so much and I told her I wasn’t feeling well, you could tell by the look on her face she could tell I wasn’t telling her the truth and she was very persistent and kept asking me for 2 more years and I broke down and told her the truth. My dad had been molesting me since I was 5 years old. She went straight school counselor and a CPS worker came a short time later and took me out of school and took me straight to the hospital to be checked to see if I was telling the truth and test indeed was proof t had been molested by my own dad put me me in state custody for a week my dad pled guilty. After they released from me state custody and sent back to my home again, my dad got released the next day back in the same home as li was, the next day he tried molesting me again and that I was in serious trouble for saying anything. My whole life my family has called me a liar. In fact my dad thought to lie! 45 years later we still don’t talk. What hurt me worse was that my mom didn’t believe me either and stayed with my dad. Then she tells all the kids that were never married until 3 weeks before he died she married for his social security checks. So I’m my eyes she chose a man over her daughter. When he attempted to molest me again I and at point I ran at 15 years old and I met a guy and my parents signed papers and said I was 18 I was indeed 15 years old.

About the author

Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison on Instagram—was only a freshman in high school when she began posting her poetry online, and since then she has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers across social media reading her work worldwide. Her debut book, Light Filters In, released in 2018, and she was named one of Her Campus’s 22 Under 22 Most Inspiring College Women in 2018 for her work destigmatizing mental illness through poetry. Caroline grew up in Westchester, New York, and is currently studying English at Harvard University. When she’s not writing, she can be found eating pad thai, harmonizing with the radio, and refusing to believe she’s growing up.