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The Vortex (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher: Poets United Inc.
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Vortex by Samuel Ludke is not a poetry collection you simply read-it's one you fall into.
At once hypnotic and unrelenting, this masterwork pulls readers through spirals of emotion, memory, and raw inner reckoning. Ludke's voice shifts effortlessly between intimate confession and sweeping, almost mythic intensity, capturing the chaos of modern existence while searching for something enduring beneath it. Each poem feels like a turning point-moments of beauty colliding with darkness, rhythm crashing into silence, clarity dissolving into questions that refuse easy answers.
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