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Coping With Terminal Stillness

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Coping With Terminal Stillness: Poems, Short Stories and Other Broken Things is my third collection of verse and prose, and was just released January 17th, 2012.

It’s an interesting combination of poetry, essays and short stories revolving around three themed sections: Creation, Terminal Stillness, and Random Acts.

My goal with this collection was to marry all three of the aspects of my writing that this blog focuses on in some sort of cohesive whole.

So, the first section, Creation, includes poems based around nature themes and my view of the outside world. Then, I also included a short story I wrote about nature running amok, called Mosquitoes.

The second section, Terminal Stillness, focuses more introspectively, or my view of the inside world, if you will. The poems in this section are a bit darker and more intense, mostly with an autobiographical leaning. Then I included a series of essays from the Timeless Principles posts on this blog because their focus is on self-improvement and development of the inner person.

Finally, the third section, Random Acts, is a loosely defined hodgepodge of poems and two short stories that involve random events or a loss of control.

I’m thrilled with the result, and I hope you find something of interest and value as well!

Here is a sample including the first twenty pages of the book, which gives you the full table of contents as well as the entire first section, Creation:

Coping With Terminal Stillness Sample

Please consider buying a copy for yourself or a friend if anything in the sample moves you! Click on the cover to buy direct from the publisher.

The Ectopic Epiphany

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The Ectopic Epiphany: Poems and Essays is my second collection, published in 2010.

This collection is far more poem-heavy, although I included five original essays written specifically to discuss the themes highlighted in each section of the book: Thought, Family, Creation, The Writing Life, and Everything Else. Each section includes a variety of different styles including a number of haiku and primarily free verse poems.

Here is a sample from The Ectopic Epiphany including the table of contents, and the entire first section, Thought:

The Ectopic Epiphany Sample

Please consider buying a copy for yourself or a friend if anything in the sample moves you! Click on the cover to buy direct from the publisher.

Sanity is Boring

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Sanity is Boring: Verse and Prose from an Interesting Mind is my first collection and it includes poems I wrote years ago, coming out of High School, a number of song lyrics I wrote as part of a rock band in my late teens and early twenties, and some poems from the first few years of my marriage.

All in all, the collection chronicles the coming-of-age of a modern poet, and includes essays discussing the backstory of much of what I wrote through the 14 year range covered in the collection.

Here is a sample of the book including the table of contents, the entire first section, High School Verse and a few selections from the second section, Random Sample Lyrics:

Sanity is Boring Sample

Please consider buying a copy for yourself or for a friend if you find anything in the samples that moves you. Click on the cover to order directly from the publisher. As you’re probably aware, writing poetry and fiction isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme by any means. But if we can keep each other moving forward, we all earn the reward of great literature.

As an alternative to buying directly from the publisher, especially if you’re an Amazon Prime member, or purchase a lot from them and can save on shipping, my books are also available through Amazon:

And if you use the Kindle, they are now available on that platform as well:

Sanity is Boring (Kindle)

The Ectopic Epiphany (Kindle)

Coping With Terminal Stillness (Kindle)

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