Synopsis of Book
Approaching Humanity is my sixth book
of poetry (eighth book overall). The book is about how we are all human, we are
flawed, imperfect, and we make mistakes. But at the end of the day we have to
pick ourselves up, help others when needed, and keep moving on
Why I wrote it
I
had originally intended my sixth book of poetry to be a book of poems I had
written between 2010 and 2013 that did not go in my previous books because they
did not fit the theme to said books. As I was putting this book together I
realized how bad of an idea this was and chose to start from scratch.
Two
of the poems I had written in the early stages were “Porcelain” and “The Only
One” and I felt they could be in the same book. After writing seven more poems
for the book I decided this book was about the humanity of us all and
eventually named it Approaching Humanity
What I want readers to get out of this
book
One
of the biggest things I tend to write about is that no matter what you go
through you are never alone. Either someone else is going through the same
thing or there is someone who is willing to help you when the help is needed
I
wrote this book as an emotional journey of one accepting their weaknesses as
well as their strengths. I start off the book with “Flawed” because I feel it
describes humanity as a whole. The book gradually gets darker until it hits
rock bottom with “To the Brain” then begins to shed light with “Seeking
Clarity” and the positive influences are throughout the second half until the book
reaches its conclusion with “Road to Recovery” which is telling the reader it’s
time to get back up, yes you will fall again but getting back up is always what
matters most.
Other interesting facts about book
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One
thing that helped shape this book were the quotes I scattered throughout the
book, the main one was the quote from Batman
Begins it says “Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up” I
feel that is the biggest point I want to get across in this book
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I
started work on this book in June 2011 and completed everything in January
2013, this is the longest amount of time I have worked on a single book.
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Two
of the quotes from the book came from two friends of mine; Haley Johnson and
Criss Jami. I am currently editing Haley’s first novel and Criss has two poetry
books of his own out with the most recent being Venus in Arms
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The
cover was illustrated by Mary Bolling, the cover was completed a year ago and
she also did the cover to my last book Wretched
Scars and will be illustrating the cover to my next book Escape my Dreams
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This
book features 50 poems the most poems I’ve ever put in a poetry book
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The
poem “The Only One” was originally an unreleased poem I did called “Now that
You’re Gone” I felt the latter was too personal and altered it into “The Only
One” I have since released “Now that You’re Gone” in the anthology Burning Thoughts and Flooding Ideas
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The
most personal poems to me in this book are “Mirror Emotions” “Restored” and “One
Mistake (Infinite Loop)”
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My
favorite poems in this book are “Guilt” and “Remission” however everyone who
has read it have gravitated towards “Eye of the Storm” and “Be Myself Again”
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