Love/Resistance/Rebellion

Love/Resistance/Rebellion.

This book is a collection of poetry about what it is to be human. We are living breathing beings that hurt each other and the author asks questions about how we can be honest about this in a way that makes less judgemental and more forgiving of each other.

The book also dwells on the nature of his family relationships as much as it did in a previous chipmunka publication 'Beyond the Wilderness'. In this book the author tries see the world from the standpoint of other family members and is so doing achieves a sense of atonement and forgiveness.

This book is by an author who has experienced severe mental illness and has an ability and insight to reflect on his past despite the enduring side effects of his medication which both control the illness and impeded some of his thinking abilities to a small extent.