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No One Sighs Over Wastrels' Graves
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Purple prose is ordinarily inapt; overly sophisticated discourse makes readers scroll to other pages. Nonetheless, pretty passages, even those lacking action or other literary advantages, for example, vignettes, in the least, can offer entertainment value. There's rhetorical power in distracting folks.
Accordingly, the intentions of verse's inventors must include adjustments to cultural prescriptions for communicative form. It ill-serves poets to say one thing while creating something antithetical to that thing or to integrate new experiences so thoroughly with old ones as to render the new ones inconsequential. After all, words' significance is negotiated between writers and readers.
For those reasons and more, No One Sighs Over Wastrels' Graves is intended to become part of our culture's conversation, not to redefine events' worth. It's up to this book's audience, not its author, to judge whether alterations to our understandings need to be made.
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