Love. It's more than just sunshine and butterflies. It hurts, it aches, it drives you insane. Well, it does if you're doing it right.'Self-Destructive Love Poems for the Sanely Challenged' is an anthology of poems mostly about love, and all the happiness, heartbreak and insanity that goes along with it, heading to a climax that is as uncertain, unpredictable, and whimsical as love itself.

Algedonic is an aesthetic outlook on pain and pleasure. Complex emotions simplified into poetic interludes as only r.h. Sin can express. With his trademark of giving simplicity to some of the hardest of emotions, Sin reminds us all that there are often two sides to an emotional story and sometimes the pain transforms into something beautiful, something less problematic and maybe something that reignites a feeling of pleasure.

Manfred, a Faustian noble, is tortured by guilt over the death of his beloved, Astarte. He uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgetfulness. The spirits are unable to control the past and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea.

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardNever has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up”—Hirsch’s account is poignantly direct and open to the st...

Alexandra Elle writes frankly about her experience as a young, single mother while she celebrates her triumph over adversity and promotes resilience and self-care in her readers. This book of all-new poems from the beloved author of Words From A Wanderer and Love In My Language is a quotable companion on the road to healing.

A collection of 13 poems:a drug for the desolate,a salve for the disheartened anda respite for those in anguish.

This Winter Dream follows on from the Shattered Glass Mind book with another ten poems. This time I have experimented with styles and themes with the same weirdness and emotion you have come to expect from Imagination:Dark.

the beat, rhyme and flow come through on ink spilled pages of a broken mans thought's as they become the reality he has set for himself.Walk the path of love lost and found and lost again words of madness, passion and rage, a struggle of the soul...

This is a supernatural story/poem that was eventually transformed into a prose novella.

The second full-length collection from sonneteer and formalist poet Catherine Chandler, Glad and Sorry Seasons brings together new suites of poems-on grief, recovery, the deadly sins, and the virtues of faith, hope, and love-to meditate on those polarities of light and dark, joy and sorrow, that illuminate and cloud our lives by turn. With subjects ranging from Alzheimer’s to Edward Hopper’s Automat, in handsomely crafted stanzas and metres, and including translations from Québeco...

A collection of poems and short stories exploring my understanding of life, love and loss. Inspired by my death in July of 2016 and the events surrounding that time.

Though most of Jane Tyson Clement’s poems remained hidden in private notebooks during her lifetime, the few that traveled beyond her hands were widely admired and drew critical acclaim. Now, with this first comprehensive anthology of her work, the public can at last discover this gifted poet and give her the audience she deserves.Evoking comparisons to such better-known contemporaries as Jane Kenyon, Wendell Berry, and Denise Levertov, Clement is d...