Saudade is a word that conveys a great melancholy longing for an often unknown something. I have never heard a word that describes this writer better. The contrasting part of his personality is that, while often plagued by this wistfulness, he relentlessly continues to hope in the face of a continuous parade of bitter, broken people, that selfishly use the world around them, and flee from any real connection that might leave them vulnerable to the people out there who are just as bad as th...

Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his writing -- a fearless mix of connecting rhythms and vibrant images -- Saul Williams is unstoppable. He received raves for his performance as an imprisoned street poet in the Trimark Pictures release Slam, winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury prize at...

A dream of desolation and death. A nightmare vision of a looming end, surrounded by hidden enemies and desperate strangers.His love taken. His hope lost. His life forfeit because of his failures, his inadequacies.How can this end be a beginning? And how can a dream seem so real?

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth BergHurrying through errands, attending a dying mother, helping her own child down the playground slide, the speaker in these poems wonders: what is the difference between the self and the soul? The secular and the sacred? Where is the kingdom of heaven? And how does one live in Ordinary Time—during those periods that are not apparently miraculous?...

There comes a time in your life when you step back and look at yourself. You admire your accomplishments, your triumphs, and your goals attained, and smile with the knowledge that you have reached a level of happiness you had set out for yourself. But then something happens and your world goes into chaos and life as you once knew it disappears into this black abyss and the only one who can see it is you. This book is a testament to a life I loved and without even knowing, changed before my...

It is a painting of a Yeats poem, a canvas of a dark night where, in a star-lit glade, he wishes for the cloth of Heaven. And yes, this cloth are many stars.She, watching the painting, can see them spread before her, but she of the picture does not see these stars and she treads on the starry cloth. His cloth. His dreamed cloth. For he dreams this cloth, and she treads on his dreams and she does not tread lightly but tramples these stars with unseeing feet. His stars, his desire. S...

Listen to the LORDs voice speaking in your soul, in the silence of your soul.His silent WORD, His NAME (YHWH) speaks at the heart of all sound; from His Spirit all voice is born.And no tongue, no noise of man, can disturb its purity, its light.It breathes.It lives.He speaks-- bringing life.And there is peace.(Not even death can overcome Him.)Though borne under a cross of pain, here is but love, here wisdom shines in silence, without a word.And in it we find strength; all qu...

Facets of Jupiter presents a new collection of poetry written by a girl who was born one of seven children in a small town on the outskirts of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her earliest memories were of her mother, who had a gift for ceramics and pottery and who lovingly shared her gift with her daughter. This planted a small seed within this creative old soul. Born as the archer, the hunter ruled by planet Jupiter. When I was a child, I would drift away like the clouds. In the morning,...

A short story inspired by the Beatles' song "Rocky Raccoon".

Escape into the cosmos of uncoiling perceptionsExplore the shape-shifting definitions of darkness and lightExpand your awareness in a flight of poetic fancy.Scattering dreams, just beyond reachLingering burning desiresFloat awayCaustic ashes drifting to heavenWeightless ghosts no longer adheringTo the gravity of reality turned upside-down

Life is not measured by the light we make or the sums of one, but by the fears we break and the shadeauxs we come from. From birth to death we are challenged with various tasks until we complete our goals, for we are given chance to not only find ourselves, but to also discover our souls. This is the poetic short story of star-crossed lovers and all they must endure, the story of how we all must grow to love and learn to mature. From the darkest of worlds where there is no strife, begins ...

Lean but brawny, reminiscent but edgy, these poems recall boyhood, fatherhood, and manhood. With tones of regret, dark humor, and poignant beauty, Henderson's contemporary verse appeals to poets and non-poets alike.