Anatomy of the Feelings I Never Named: Case Studies of Feelings is not a collection you read—it is a body you enter.
This book examines emotional states we rarely give language to: those that contradict themselves, arrive too early, or feel too heavy for their names. The poems move between wanting to vanish and learning how to stay, between reverence for life and exhaustion from it. These are studies, not conclusions.
The voice shifts, observing trust, grief, longing, kindness, fear, and wonder as they pass through the same heart. Feeling is treated not as a phase to outgrow, but as evidence of being awake. The poems ask what it means to live intensely in a world that prefers moderation.
At its core, this collection believes contradiction is not confusion but depth. That gratitude can coexist with despair. That some emotions refuse translation, and some souls arrive already full. This book is for those who have been told they feel too much—and chose to listen anyway.
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Harleen Bal
Harleen Bal is a student-writer based in Punjab, India. She is seventeen years old and in the final months of school. Her writing emerges from emotional intensity and an attentiveness to inner life—often exploring what it means to feel deeply, prematurely, and without apology.
Her work is shaped by place as much as by emotion. Punjab, her homeland, influences much of how she feels and writes, while Kashmir and London return in her poems as places of reflection and longing. A few poems in this collection were written during her time in Kashmir, and some piece is devoted to London—not as a place she has lived in, but as a city she carries in thought and visited a few times. These places appear less as backdrops and more as ways through which she understands herself.
She has been writing seriously for the past year and a half, though some earlier pieces—written before intention, before structure—also appear in this debut collection. Her poems document the shifting states of the mind as they occur, without revision into comfort or clarity.
Anatomy of the Feelings I Never Named is her first book. Her work has previously appeared on Instagram and Substack. This collection marks the beginning of her published work and is currently working on new writing alongside her studies.
