Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a Callous and Disinterested Lover.
- ISBN-10
- 1980296537
- ISBN-13
- 9781980296539
- Series
- Nocturne
- Pages
- 84
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-08
- Author
- Phil Slattery
Description
Comments on Nocturne...have been touching and effusive."...All in all, Nocturne, is a beautiful but sad read that speaks to the reality of love and holds nothing back. It engages the mind and the heart longing for lasting, meaningful love that always seems just outside of its reach...""I like this author's poems which have a great feel to them. The book is about love but a lot more is included inside the pages. I like the photos the author included to enhance the poetry. A few of the poems held descriptive words about nature and I enjoyed the way the picture author paints in the readers mind is also displayed in the photographs that correspond with the words.""...The whole thing is sad emotionally and very bittersweet and left me feeling rather melancholy when I was finished. With both the poems and the introduction this is a very personal look at part of the author's life. He comes across as a very real and interesting person..."Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover is a collection of Phil Slattery's poetry written from the mid-80's to mid-90's, a turbulent, fluid time in his life in many ways, but especially romantically. He has taken many of the poems written (many of which were published in various magazines) during those years and compiled them into a dark narrative capturing the emotional turmoil of an anonymous narrator who descends from romantic love for a woman into a lonely world of alcohol and night clubs, where his only love is the night that envelops him psychologically, emotionally, and physically. This is an emotional and psychological odyssey for the reader, exploring the bliss of love to the depths of despair and then to resignation to one's fate in an existential crisis. The anthology is lavishly illustrated with photos from the public domain that attempt to capture visually the essence of the poems they accompany.This print edition includes poems, published or unpublished, that were left out of the Kindle for various reasons, the primary one being they were simply lost or forgotten. These additional poems have been woven into the text to help support the narrative instead of including them as a second part, which would seem out of place, out of the chronological flow, and simply awkward. Go to https: //www.bookscharming.com/p/interview-with-phil-slattery.html to read Phil's interview about Nocturne with Aakanksha Jain
