Chemistry and Other Sad Boy Stuff is a short-form poetry and sketches collection that I hope distills and universalizes what I've learned, during the course of collecting, is my high-masking depressive autistic experience. It would mean everything to me for you to even pick it up, and even more if just one word on one page somehow resonates with you. In that way, the theme of the book turns from isolation to connection, to a reminder that you only have to be as alone as serves you...

Organized in four sections – Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany – K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores what it is to want in spite of trauma, shame, injustice, and mental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter "to those who lie awake burning."

"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics."-The New York Times Book Review"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline."-Voice Literary SupplementThis fast-paced, verbally dexterous book-honored as a "Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly-"boils up and boils over" ...

**A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistEarthling confronts our deepest fears in clear and haunting language, from "a poet of extraordinary gifts" (American Academy of Arts and Letters).**"Earthling" is one of the oldest words in the English language, our original word for ploughman, a keeper of the earth. In poems simultaneously ordinary and otherworldly, James Longenbach traces the life of a modern-day earthling as he looks squarely at his little patch of ...

This collection of original quotes and poems focuses on common issues in human pursuits. It is the sixth entry in the six-volume Knowing series, which includes Live Knowing Life, Love Knowing Love, Pine Knowing Pain, Shine Knowing Shame, Climb Knowing Aim, and Knowing Won’t Let Darkness Reign. All parts of the series and their contents can be read without a particular sequence or pacing. Like my other works, this book does not claim indisputable wisdom. It offers crystallization points for...

This is a collection of poems and essays that represents a significant amount of the material that I have written over a span of the last three decades. Poetry is the main form of the writing I have done, but I also did some song-writing and short prose pieces, though I have chosen to include mostly poetry in this book. This is the first time I have published any of my work, as writing and music have been more of a hobby for me than a serious consideration. It is only by the friendly sugge...

Many times we take life for granted. Problems arise, people get hurt, and lets face it, things tend to pile up in record time. Yet, this happens to everyone. So how is it some people tend to be more successful than others? How are others able to overcome the worst of any circumstances? Its all about our perspective. This book will help you see the right way, change whats necessary, and bring out the life we were all meant to live. The author demonstrates how to become successful through po...

Aim to be inspired without a miss; connect in this poetic confrontation. Both thought-provoking and flowing, the rhymes will motivate and rhythms satiate the soul. Challenges to the ordinary intersect with motivation to higher levels. Prepare to contemplate true victory as contrasting complexities clash in this duel.

Misread Lines is a compilation of poetry written over the course of four years. It contains themes of romance, animals, nature, destruction, self-reflection, and internal insecurity. Each poem is episodic to the nature of the book itself, yet many share common themes. Beginning on December 20, 2012, and ending in December 2016, Misread Lines follows the growth of Thomas Shumate as a poet and, simultaneously, as a person. Each poem is an emotional chapter into the realm of his thoughts. Thr...

Unfortunately, some of the people you're listening to don't know what they're talking about. There are no dramatics, stopping-to-listening requires zero effort. Getting to that nirvana is the trick, though. Again, unfortunately, if you are completely surrounded and bombarded, the likelihood of that sojourn is remote. But please tolerate those not so locked down, those curiously looking for truth, and maybe experiencing that with me. It has truly not harmed anyone in the entire his...

An opportunity to journey through the mind body and soul of a conscious poet. You are invited to encounter the expression of emotions that harmonize with a heartbeat of rhythms. Each artful entry makes a statement after guidance on verses that flow. Connect in the presence of this poetic vortex with a spirit that has written revelations, sensations, and creations.

My writings began as a diary or journal. My young adulthood was very rocky, including an unhappy marriage, depression and employment that I did not enjoy. I would write to relieve stress. I would write about things that were important to me, my existence and the creation surrounding me. I am a visual artist. my thoughts are expressed though colors, shapes and emotional attachments.