Shannon would do anything to save her beloved brother’s life, including making a devil’s bargain with a foreign Prince. But his price was high. He demanded she leave everything that was familiar to her and go with him to a strange country. A country she knew nothing about where she would have to face her biggest nightmare the fear and terror of an assassin’s bullet. Six months ago she had fled from that horror. Now she had to find the courage to pay that price for his help. They came from opposite sides of the world and from different cultures. He was the Crown Prince of Bashram and she was an ordinary woman who was desperate to save her brother.
At the mercy of abusive lives and Borderline Personality Disorder, a boy and girl on separate edges of the world discover each other online. Bonding through music, video games and a mutual understanding of self-destruction, they rapidly shift from being best friends to lovers, finding in each other a tenderness their worlds had never offered.<br /><br />But things change.<br /><br />Now older, the woman sits down to reflect on their story. Spanning 15 years and subtly weaving traces of their past into poetry, she wonders if the beauty of words is enough to overpower the tragedy of a dismantled mind, body and life.<br /><br />The prequel to a planned trilogy, 'Dancer in the Dark' explores the darker side of human nature and reality of living with both mental and physical illness.
Through the toughest trials; I have overcome. I have learned to appreciate every tragic ending to every perfect beginning. These are the stories that have lived to retell themselves. This is the perfect beginning, enjoy the journey.
THIS IS THE FIRST EVER BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY WHICH COVERS ALL THE IMPORTANT TOPICS OF ISLAM IN ONE SINGLE COLLECTION. IT IS A CULMINATION OF 14 YEARS OF TIRELESS SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH BY A GENUINE SEEKER OF KNOWLEDGE.<br /><br />About author: www.aadilfarook.com<br /><br />Reviews and Special comments: http://aadilfarook.com/famous-peoples-comments/ <br /><br />Foreword, Table of contents and preface: http://aadilfarook.com/books/
I write poetry to give God the glory for saving me from alcohol and in the words relay my story in the hope it encourages other addicts and also inspires people to keep pushing through their troubles.
"Never be crazy alone," says TL Banks, the author of this collection of scars (some of which are self inflicted), «when the damage dwells in the deep recesses of your dome, dig it out with dirty spoons and distribute it widely.»
Pluviophile is a poetic rumination on where language originates and what value it retains to unearth the sacred in postmodernity, among other subjects. The opening poem, “The Place Where Words Go to Die,” winner of the Malahat Review ’s 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter the symbiotic relationship with the human, where “saxum [is] sacrificed and born again as saxifrage.” From here the poems shift to diverse locations, from Montreal to Kolkata, from the moon to the gates of heaven.
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche.Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, and documentary sources, including newspapers, related «true crime» books, and fragments from Jane’s own diaries written. Each piece in Jane has its own form that serves as an important fissure, disrupting the tabloid, «page-turner» quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another’s life and death. Part elegy, part memoir, detective story, part meditation on violence, and part conversation between the living and the dead, Jane’s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, expands the notion of what poetry can do—what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.