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The Shock
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Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Poets United Inc.
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Shock is a collection of raw, meditative poems that move through love, loss, identity, and spiritual disorientation with unflinching honesty. Written in a voice that is at once intimate and searching, Samuel Ludke's work lingers in the space between breakdown and awakening-where language strains to hold what the mind is only beginning to understand.
Across these poems, repetition becomes reflection, simplicity becomes revelation, and emotional intensity is stripped of ornament until only truth remains. The speaker wrestles with attachment and absence, perfection and imperfection, ego and dissolution, tracing the quiet violence of inner transformation and the strange clarity that follows emotional collapse.
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