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My Soul in Stanzas
Paperback
Publisher: Liam Reid
Published: Oct 2 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
My Soul in Stanzas is a sprawling, emotionally charged compendium that documents a poet's evolution from intimate confessionals to politically conscious elegies. It reads not as a curated volume but as a life-in-progress: love, trauma, faith, and social violence recorded almost in real time.
The dominant energy is confession and memorialization. Reid writes from the wound and through the wound - every poem attempts to preserve or redeem loss: lost lovers, lost parents, lost teachers, lost innocence, and lost nations. It's both personal diary and historical lament.
Stylistically, the language is modern free verse with a heavy influence from the confessional tradition (Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, early Hughes), but also from the elegiac lyricism of war poets (Owen, Sassoon) and the raw immediacy of contemporary spoken-word poetry.
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