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o,papa is here!

Stanhope never stops overthinking, and in his second poetry anthology, O, Papa, he unleashes an emotional exorcism upon himself, unveiling a collection of visceral, personal poems about his mental state as a young adult shaping the desire, grief and yearning we all have within. O, Papa does not seek redemption -  it simply refuses to look away. Here, suffering is not solitary;

A boy watches his father and learns how to stand.

A man watches his son and forgets how to kneel.

A grandfather watches them both

and remembers too late;

he should've taught them 

how to fall.

Books

Stanhope's anthology of poetry, idk. and O, Papa both touch on childhood, love, trauma, healing, survival, masculinity, and queerness.

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My
Story

As a 19-year-old university drop-out, Stanhope wrote and self-published his first collection, idk.

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