What Keeps Me Awake - Brossura

Koester, Brian Jerrold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1774030063 ISBN 13: 9781774030066

Casa editrice: Silver Bow Publishing, 2026

Riassunto

What Keeps Me Awake is the haunting and luminous debut poetry collection by Brian Jerrold Koester, a writer whose voice moves with equal parts tenderness, ferocity, and unflinching honesty. These poems travel the full spectrum of human experience-grief, wonder, memory, desire, fear, and the strange beauty that lives in the shadows we try not to name. Koester writes with a rare emotional precision, guiding readers into the hidden alcoves of the subconscious where old secrets, unresolved questions, and long-buried truths wait to be acknowledged.

Across landscapes both internal and external, Koester's imagery is vivid, startling, and unforgettable. He moves from the quiet ache of family history to the surreal edges of dream and myth; from the rawness of personal loss to the unexpected grace found in ordinary moments. Whether confronting the ghost of a brother, the weight of inherited sorrow, the strange tenderness of memory, or the dark gods that stalk the edges of night, Koester's poems invite readers to look deeper-into themselves, into the world, and into the places where the two blur.

This collection is not afraid of the difficult or the beautiful. It is a book that whispers and roars, that unsettles and consoles, that asks the reader to sit with what is unresolved and to listen for what rises in the silence. Koester's voice is both intimate and expansive, weaving the personal with the universal in a way that feels at once deeply familiar and entirely new.

What Keeps Me Awake is a powerful exploration of the human psyche-its fractures, its resilience, its longing, and its capacity for transformation. These poems linger long after the final page, echoing in the mind like a question that refuses to be forgotten. For readers drawn to poetry that is fearless, evocative, and emotionally resonant, Koester's debut offers a compelling journey into the depths of what it means to feel, to remember, and to remain awake to the world within and around us.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Silver Bow Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1774030063
• ISBN 13: 9781774030066
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 72
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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