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Emptiness
Paperback
Publisher: American Poets Inc.
Published: Oct 19 2025
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Emptiness, Samuel Ludke takes readers into the hollow spaces of the human soul-those moments between love and loss, hope and despair, meaning and nothingness. Each poem is a reflection on silence, on what remains after everything else has been stripped away.
Through haunting imagery, emotional candor, and a voice both tender and unflinching, Ludke explores what it means to live in a world that constantly asks for more when the heart has nothing left to give. Emptiness is not just a meditation on loss-it is a map through it, a quiet guide for anyone who has ever felt the ache of absence and the strange beauty that lingers in its wake.
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