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The Keeper of Unspoken Words
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $28.00
Publisher: Oves Books
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Keeper of Unspoken Words is a bilingual collection of love poems that traces an intimate, luminous bond between two people who have never met in person. Living parallel lives, they come to know each other through the transformative acts of listening and speaking-a shared practice the poet names Discourse, Attunement, and Ecstasy. Through these nightly exchanges, their connection deepens into a form of spiritual and sensational love that transcends distance, circumstance, and the limits of language.
This is poetry about longing: the longing to be heard, to be understood, to be held by another consciousness across the vastness of the world. Their dialogue becomes a shared inner landscape, a place where words create shelter, where listening becomes touch, and where silence becomes a form of devotion.
At the heart of the book lies the long central sequence Genesis of the Ear, a lyrical exploration of listening as creation, destruction, and communion. Here, the ear becomes prism, harbor, bridge, and alchemical chamber-where words are born, where worlds fracture, and where two lives briefly share a single breath. The poems reveal how two souls can sculpt each other through sound alone, and how unspoken words-the meanings shimmering beneath breath, silence, and hesitation-carry their own mysterious power.
Stylistically, the collection is boldly inventive. Its bilingual Chinese-English form creates a mirrored architecture in which two languages echo, refract, and illuminate each other. The poems move with dreamlike fluidity, blending surreal imagery, mythic resonance, and intimate confession. Wolves carrying cotton blossoms, wooden horses whispering at dawn, blue flames drifting over winter seas-each image showcases the book's distinctive poetic creativity, where metaphor becomes a living organism and emotion takes on visionary shape.
The Keeper of Unspoken Words invites readers into a space where intimacy is built not through physical presence but through the courage to speak, the grace to listen, and the mystery of what remains unsaid. It is a testament to how two distant lives can intertwine, echo, and transform-proving that love can flourish even in the spaces between worlds.
Across its pages, the collection traces the delicate interplay of sound, silence, and imagination. It is a book about the mysteries language cannot fully hold, the tenderness of miscommunication, and the beauty of what remains unspoken yet deeply felt. Through its bilingual form and visionary imagery, the book becomes both mirror and threshold-an intimate room that language has not yet named.
這是關於渴望愛的詩篇：渴望被聽見、被理解、被另一種意識在浩瀚世界中拥入怀中。全书字里行间，音韵、静默与想象的微妙交织跃然纸上。它讲述着语言无法完全承载的奥秘，沟通不畅时的温柔，以及那些虽未言明却深藏心底的美。这本书既是镜子又是门槛，凭借其双语形式与多姿多彩的意象，呈现了一个语言尚未命名的私密空间。
本书的核心是贯穿始终的长篇诗作《耳之创世》，以抒情笔触诠释聆听作为创造、毁灭与交融的永恒主题。耳在此化作棱镜、港湾、桥梁与炼金术密室--词语在此诞生，世界在此破碎，两个生命在此共赴一息。诗行揭示了两个灵魂如何通过声音相互雕琢。
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