ODE TO A SAD BOY  brings together a collection of poems written by Francesca Flora over recent years. By alternating narratives of sentimental grief with observations of everyday life, her writing develops a series of reflections that articulate the discomfort of the self along its own unraveling.

 Francesca Flora experiments with the parallel yet intersecting tension between collective and individual affective experiences, as an attempt to unhinge the binds of sentimental superiority by becoming relatable through the juxtaposition of infantile poetic storytelling and deeper inquiries that question sorrow and belonging.