A01=Tarriona Ball
Author_Tarriona Ball
Black poet
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charming
comforting
coming of age
empowering
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falling out of love
finding yourself
first love
follow up
for women
gift for
girlhood
growth
healing
heartbreak
hip hop
honest
honesty
journey back to yourself
love
musician poet
neo-funk
new love
New Orleans
npr tiny desk
personal
poetry
rebound
self discovery
self-love
singer songwriter
slam
slam poet
spoken word
tank and the bangas
teenage girl
thirty-something
transformation
twenty-something
vulnerable
witty
womanhood
women
Product details
- ISBN 9798881600211
- Weight: 213g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball comes a powerful second collection of poetry about falling out of love and into a renewed sense of self.
After getting “vulnerable AF” on her 2021 book tour, Tank realized she was truly ready to move on from her first love. In The Thing About Falling, she writes about that experience as well as what followed—a period of shallow comfort, followed by a much deeper transformation.
Organized in sections that follow the author from heartbreak to rebound to new love, the poetry that flows is an honest, witty, and effortlessly charming account of one woman’s journey back to herself.
For the teenage reader facing their first heartbreak or the thirty-something looking for the strength to risk love again, The Thing About Falling is a heartfelt reminder that love is always worth the fall.
After getting “vulnerable AF” on her 2021 book tour, Tank realized she was truly ready to move on from her first love. In The Thing About Falling, she writes about that experience as well as what followed—a period of shallow comfort, followed by a much deeper transformation.
Organized in sections that follow the author from heartbreak to rebound to new love, the poetry that flows is an honest, witty, and effortlessly charming account of one woman’s journey back to herself.
For the teenage reader facing their first heartbreak or the thirty-something looking for the strength to risk love again, The Thing About Falling is a heartfelt reminder that love is always worth the fall.
Tarriona "Tank" Ball is New Orleans-based slam poet and Grammy-winning recording artist with her band, Tank and the Bangas.
