Monroe Free Library

"This publication of poems is the heartbreak and pain that comes from the inner depths of the soul of any parent who has lost a child, particularly to suicide or, in this case, military suicide. The painful truth is that twenty-two veterans a day commit suicide (twenty-two too many). This chronicles the complicated grief long after the loss of a loved one, one mother's journey written through poems of the pain and grief long after losing her twenty-three-year-old...

"Avram Ohm's maternal Irish grandfather, whom he never met, was quoted as having said: "If you want an intelligent conversation, talk to yourself." During his own half-century of growth and development, Ohm notes that his grandfather's advice frequently demonstrated its usefulness. The poetry and writing fragments contained in this volume provide a glimse into one writer's personal and private internal conversation."--

"What happens when poetry, 'rises off the cracked surface of grief?' Rebecca Watkins explores both the grief and what rises in her newest collection, Sometimes, in these Places. The smooth motion and gentle imagery feels both deeply personal and wildly relatable, tackling dark concepts with sophistication and grace. If feels as though Watkins wants to let us into her house, watch with her all the dark news stories of the day, and then let us leave...

"Arthania is a personal prayer to God, which can be heard and read by people, and animals, and plants, and stars. New song rhythm forms and meanings are proposed in this book; the truth of author Ihor Pavlyuk's life (as a citizen of Ukraine, who lived and worked in many countries of the world) is consonant with all the people of the planet who can take the subtle energy they need from this book if they adequately catch the wave of his soul through...

"Rocío para ella es una mezcla de sentimientos, pensamientos y deseos que desvelan el corazón de Hilmer Ramírez, quien forzado por la necesidad de exorcizar lo que en su pecho abunda decide escribir. Nacido en las entrañas del departamento de Chiquimula, en su amada Guatemala, país de la eterna primavera. Hijo de una familia campesina, ha soñado desde niño con el pronto mejoramiento de su patria y la paz del mundo." -- Back cover.

"Juan Pablo Mobili's poems are born from living life with eyes that wish to stop seeing but remained open, and bear the record of being a citizen of one family and two countries. In them you will meet the people he loved and deeply shaped what he must pay attention to, and a personal city that keeps establishing its presence and its mark -the cadence of Buenos Aires and the rhythm of New York- full of memories of beauty and the insistent tragedies...

"On January 6, 2021, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, while the U.S. Capitol is under attack, Nicholas Montemarano drives six hundred miles to see his mother, who is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia and in a critical state. For ten days he lives in a hotel minutes from the hospital, alternating between hope and helplessness. This is the story of those ten days"--

"Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--