Too Much

Poems by a Broken Boy

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Genres

Family Relationships, Heartbreak, Mental Health, Loss, Coming of Age, Debut, and Poems

Trigger Warnings

Self Harm, Profanity, and Drugs & Alcohol

Type of Ending

AI Usage^Beta

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Publication Date

Sep 19, 2026

Page Length

106 pages

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Too Much

Poems by a Broken Boy

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Blurb

For anyone who’s loved too much and lost themselves doing so.

TOO MUCH follows a boy who believed love could save him and the man left after it couldn’t. Through heartbreak, masculinity, and self-destruction, he confronts the ways he hurt, was hurt, and learns how to stay with himself.

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Genres

Family Relationships, Heartbreak, Mental Health, Loss, Coming of Age, Debut, and Poems

Trigger Warnings

Self Harm, Profanity, and Drugs & Alcohol

Type of Ending

AI Usage^Beta

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Publication Date

Sep 19, 2026

Page Length

106 pages

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Author

Joel Velasquez Soto is a writer and poet exploring what happens after the life you thought you were going to live falls apart.

His work explores love, loss, masculinity, and identity. In his debut poetry collection TOO MUCH: Poems by a Broken Boy, Joel traces the collapse of a relationship, the self-destruction that follows and the painful process of rebuilding a life afterward.

In his personal essays and fiction, Joel writes for people trying to make meaning out of the mess life gives without pretending the process is straightforward. In his newsletter Letters from the Arena, he focuses on the struggle, endurance and the work of surviving daily life.