The Shatter Between Heartbeats - Couverture souple

Vale, E T

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1961763982 ISBN 13 : 9781961763982

Editeur : Open Kimono Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

The Shatter Between Heartbeats is not a poetry collection. It is a psychological event. A descent into the raw architecture of the human mind, where trauma is not described but embodied-where anxiety tightens like a vice, depression seals every exit, and survival is carved line by line without anesthesia. Written by E.T. Vale and edited by Amir Kapoor, this groundbreaking anthology explores the lived experience of mental illness through twenty-four unflinching, interconnected poems. Each piece grips the reader like a synaptic misfire, looping and rupturing in form, mimicking the patterns of a brain caught in survival mode.

Perfect for fans of Ocean Vuong, Anne Carson, and Sylvia Plath, The Shatter Between Heartbeats breaks the boundaries of poetic language to reveal what it means to live inside a mind that won't shut off. This collection doesn't flinch-it bleeds while exploring the author's truth in a way only he could.

Structured like an anxiety attack and culminating in a poem composed entirely of the final lines of every piece before it, the book itself is recursive, hallucinatory, and unforgettable. It offers no comfort, no clean endings, no recovery arc-only truth, spoken aloud.

Featuring standout poems like "The Choice That Was Never Mine," "Hold On," "Blood, Sand, and Bleach," and the devastating closer "The Sum Continuum," the anthology walks the line between poetry and psychosis, making it a must-read for survivors, seekers, and anyone who has ever felt undone by their own thoughts.

Whether you're searching for powerful mental health poetry, exploring themes of trauma, PTSD, depression, addiction, or simply craving a book that dares to feel, The Shatter Between Heartbeats is a literary landmark. It doesn't ask to be understood-it demands to be felt.

This is poetry for those who don't want a silver lining. This is for the ones who lived through the storm-and kept going.

Trigger warning: Contains themes of suicide, war, mental illness, and trauma.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open Kimono Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1961763982
• ISBN 13: 9781961763982
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 102
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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