Listen, Poems on being Gay, Bipolar, and Alive - Couverture souple

Fragoso Jr, Andres

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798201688554

Editeur : Writers Sidekick Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Listen, Poems on being Gay, Bipolar, and Alive

Writing is my Pandora's Box. When I open it up and write, I do not know what hopes come out. Writing is cathartic to me. It helps me let out my frustrations and alleviates my pain. My illness, bipolar, is a chemical in-balance in the brain.

When I was diagnosed with bipolar, the first four or five years flew by without a peaceful moment. I do not remember much about those years, only that I was asleep, lethargic, forgetful, sleeping most of the time, suicidal, manic, depressed, and forgot what else. It was a dark time.

After a while, I started to feel that I had just woken up. I tasted everything for the first time. I saw things in a new way. Life was good. It was re-birthing for me. I could not keep Hope bottled up. I let it out.

In the interim, I went to therapy, and fortunately, I got something good out of it, Journaling and poetry. I wrote my feelings, fears, desires, and how I wanted to kill myself, contrasting them with how I wanted to live.

I found a website where members would critique your poems. They wanted to publish a few of my poems. I submitted my first poem, "My Vanessa, My Butterfly." A poem dedicated to my sister, who never gave up on me.

Someone had mentioned combining my stories and publishing them. I did. I combined the best ones, created new ones, dedicated a few, and published them. My first book of poetry is full of errors, bad grammar, and frightening poems. I kept it that way and hoped people would see those poems' underlying illness. They are raw, passionate, and truthful.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andres Fragoso, Jr., is an author, blogger, freelance ghostwriter, journalist, mentor, poet, publicist, and much more. Loves to create new stories and has many ideas to write. In writing gay fiction, he shows the other aspects of being human in his works. Without dwelling on either issue, his characters come to life overcoming obstacles that are beyond their control.

Andres has published many fiction and non-fiction books with many stories and poetry online, anthologies, and articles in various online magazines.

"My mission in life is to help other authors and writers improve their craft. As I help them, they help me improve mine."

Andres' experience comes from over 30 years in customer services, managing large and small corporations, and volunteering his time. He is in various writers groups, both online and in-person, such as Las Vegas Writers Group, Henderson Writers Group, Las Vegas Erotic Group, and Authors in Pajamas,

Andres' current projects and clients include Friends of Dorothy Club, FIND, Fabulous Image, Wally Hawkins Photography, to name a few. Under his company name, The Ghoster. He is the author of Writer's Sidekick Series Notebooks published un Writer's Sidekick Publishing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Writers Sidekick Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798201688554
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible