Beyond the Edge of Suffering - Prose Poems (Conners Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Prose poems and flash fictions revealing the heart-wrenching, absurd, life-changing nature of living through Covid, political chaos, and personal upheaval. Peter Conners’ unique blend of prose poetry, flash
fiction, and other spare poetic forms pays witness to the heart-wrenching,
absurd, life-changing nature of surviving a global pandemic during one of the
most politically and culturally divisive times in American history. As a
divorced father living in a blended family with 4 children, navigating a new
marriage, and also caring for elderly parents, pandemic restrictions and their
attendant scary weirdness hit hard. After a decade of publishing highly regarded
nonfiction books about music and counterculture, Conners knew that only poetry
could do these strange days justice. The result is Conners’ first prose poetry
collection in a dozen years. Moving from raw personal poems like “One of you
went” and “My father wanders” to overt political rants “The beaches are filled”
and “Welcome to the last” to comically absurd flash fictions like “Superhero”
and “Hello, my name is Larry” to meditations on relationships (“A small house;”
“The old husband”) and spirituality (“If each martyr;” “Love everyone”),
Conners strikes all the rich notes that illustrate our humanity, desire for
love and connection, and striving for a rebirth that awaits just beyond th
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