I've added three new poems to my book, The Unknown Race, and added my name and the title to the spine of the paperback.
I also revised the book, In Life There Is No Escape. I changed the cover, revised the opening poem that comes before the table of contents, and added two new poems.
The revised versions of both books should be available on Amazon.com in the next few days.
To celebrate my brithday, which falls in the middle of this month, I'm giving away the ebook version of my first book of poetry, In Letting Go.
From May 10th to the 14th, please visit Amazon.com and download the book free of change.
Happy Birthday!
For me, poetry has always served as a vehicle for my emotions. It's how I exorcise my demons in a non-destructive fashion so I can vent all that bothers me to the world without actually screaming at anyone.
And there's plenty to scream about, from my own personal failings to an administration that is hell bent on torturing its own citizens. In many ways what's happening in the United States makes me numb, and I feel like curling up into a ball on the floor and staying there until things change. But nothing will change, not unless we do what we can to let people know change is necessary.
And while I'm not a particularly political person, I do have opinions, and I can't help myself from expressing them through my writing. So, each of my books occasionally takes a break from bemoaning my own existence to speak to what I see as problems in a world where huge corporations and governments take advantage of the middle class and poor.
My latest book, The Unknown Race, is my attempt at railing at not only myself, but at the world at large. It's a cycle of poems that focus on how I've failed in my life and what that means as I enter my senior years. But there's also poems focused on the rich and powerful, on Trump and his lackies, and on artificial intelligence and the possibility that it will do more harm than good.
It's a collection broken into three chapters. The first, Ramblings, are introspective poems that attempt to discuss how we can better ourselves. The second, Ravings, is directly focused at our government and the injustices of a nation built upon enriching itself at the expense of its own citizens. The last, Regrets, is directly focused on my own faults with the exception of the title poem, which ends the chapter and the book, and explores how a world built upon the worship of the rich and powerful can never provide justice.
The Unknown Race is my most ambitious book to date, and it's the first I've put together myself without any outside help. It's mine to succeed or fail with, and I'm proud of how it's turned out.
The Unknown Race is available on Amazon.com in print, as an ebook, and as part of Kindle Unlimited.
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