Download or read book Poetry I Wrote on Drugs written by Brycical and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry serves a higher purpose than simply documenting the poet Brycical's experiences on various visionary substances like LSD, ecstasy, mushrooms, marijuana, salvia and also alcohol. These poems are meant to compare and illustrate how these substances can, when with the right settings and right people, serve as a conduit for creative expression. For Brycical, these poems also represent major life-lessons distilled into words that came through him as he traversed inward to understand himself, and occasionally those around him. Under absolutely no circumstance is this book, or the poems within, meant to promote/glorify drug use &/or substance abuse. Instead, this book intends to serve two purposes. First, stop the demonetization of those who have or continue to ingest these substances. Second, this book also seeks to silence the stigma surrounding these substances categorized as just "drugs" with no medicinal value.
Download or read book Really Hard Drugs written by Samantha R. Reichl and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a collection of poetry separated into the four stages of drug addiction: experimentation, regular use, abuse/addiction, and acceptance/recovery. each section compares love as the most addictive and common drug in the world and the stages that come along with the emotion. experimentation describes the bliss of first love and the honey-moon stage. regular-use describes relationships and being immersed in the strong feeling. abuse/addiction describes the rough spots in relationships and the sadness after and during heartbreak. lastly, acceptance/recovery describes coping with the loss of love and realizing self-love and personal worth. these poems are not only meant to capture what it's like to be in-love and out-of-love with others, but should remind readers how you must hold onto yourself through your endeavors and never forget your personal worth.
Download or read book The Book of Drugs written by Mike Doughty and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.
Download or read book Emergency Brake written by Ruth Madievsky and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Go ahead, try all you want pulling on Ruth Madievsky's emergency brake but just remember it won't do you any good. This will be the most exciting and inventive first book you have read in years, and this poet's take-no-prisoners attitude makes for an ecstatic joyride. These deeply moving poems reflect the raw darkness paring at the edges of our lives, and they reveal how that dark can sometimes move to the very centers of our being. Sexy, irreverent, sorrowful, thrilling the poems of EMERGENCY BRAKE become a young woman's survival manual for the Twenty-First Century: ignore it at your own peril." David St. John"
Download or read book Poetry of an Addict written by Brett C. Persson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is some of the poetry I have written over the past 20 or so years. It is not complex or brilliant. It is what it is, and that is a group of works from an alcoholic, and drug addict. Some were written sober, but a lot were not. Some are good (I think) and some are crap (I am sure). Either way you may find it amusing, or interesting, if not good. Some of these were written when I was under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and some have been written since I have entered recovery. The oldest poem in this collection was written in 1987, when I was fourteen years old.
Download or read book To Get Here written by Wendy Mnookin and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems that speak to a mother's anguish over her son's drug addiction; the son - as Superman - answers.
Download or read book Solve for Desire written by Caitlin Bailey and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut poetry collection exploring the real lives of siblings Georg and Grete Trakl while addressing themes of desire, addiction, loss, and absence. Georg Trakl is one of the most celebrated poets of the early twentieth century. Less is known about his sister, Grete: also gifted, also addicted to drugs, and dead by her own hand three years after Georg’s overdose. But in Solve for Desire—selected by Srikanth Reddy as the winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry—Caitlin Bailey summons Grete from the shadows. At once sensual and acidic, obsessive and bereft, the Grete of these poems is a fairy-tale sister leaving “missives dropped around the city, crumbs / for your ghost.” Can one person be addicted to another? Can two souls be twinned, and where does that leave the physical? How do we solve for desire when the object we adore disappears—and how does the poet solve and resolve the past, its wounds and its absences? “Each time I write your name,” Bailey writes, “a key / turns somewhere in a lock.” Like the “perfect red burst” of poppies and of blood, these poems are a blooming, keening exploration of desire between brother and sister, poet and subject, the living and the dead. Praise for Solve for Desire “The work of a poet who sings, boldly, across the distances between us.” —Srikanth Reddy “A sobering look at desire, addiction, loss, and absence in this debut collection of short, lyric poems that are by turns lush and understated, lofty and plainspoken. . . . She performs a kind of feminist resuscitation of the lesser-known Grete, focusing on small moments of quiet, grief, lust, and memory, and fleshing out a story that is still disputed” —Publishers Weekly “This precarious, satisfyingly disjointed debut collection of poetry captures the spirit of the [Trakl] siblings. . . . Bailey’s brilliantine lyrics shine brightest when the siblings’ characters are wrought in full relief.” —Booklist
Download or read book Novel with Cocaine written by M. Ageyev and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name.
Download or read book Portrait of the Alcoholic written by Kaveh Akbar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the Alcoholic is the first chapbook of poems from Ruth Lilly-winner and founding editor of Divedapper, Kaveh Akbar.
Download or read book My Head Lives Here written by Mia Shparaga and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a residence for thoughts that cannot live inside a head. The majority of the poems in this collection endeavor to articulate the often-overwhelming elusiveness of the world around us. Each piece intends to invoke an image that relates to moments in our life that we relive every now and then – flavoring our conscious with either hints of nostalgia or the essence of apprehension. Those moments that have been hidden away in our deepest memories, displaced by the bustling substance of “things that matter.” Throughout the text, there is an obvious evolution of emotional depth and complexity in my perception of the adequate words to say. Yet, the entire collection represents my current state as a new author, aspiring to emulate the effortless yet profound simplicity of words as art. As an extension of my own reality, the world inside these pages explores the extremes of emotion that are sometimes better read than felt.
Download or read book I Will Never Give Up written by Derek W. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inspiring true story of my life. I was a 5 year old foster kid who eventually found light at the end of the tunnel. I have fought for my existence. I have lived a life in which abuse, loneliness, and dark nights of despair rattled the very bones of my body, drained the tears of my spirit, shattered my mind into a million fragments, and left me for awhile plodding through life as an empty shell, a lost and helpless soul. I have breathed the air of the unloved, and suffered deep psychological and spiritual wounds due to abandonment at an early age by my mother and father. I have blamed myself for a past over which I had no control. My trust in people was displaced with hostility and anger. And yet, my spirit would not be broken. I have fought for survival in the name of love, powered by a dogged will whose voice never stopped telling me to NEVER GIVE UP! I would like to share my story with you so that you may be determined to win life's battles and finally have peace with your past.
Download or read book The Brave Never Write Poetry written by Daniel Jones and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These confrontational poems about sex and boredom, drugs and suicide, document Jones' depressive, alcoholic years as an enfant terrible.
Download or read book Penny s Poems written by Penny M Glenn and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will take the reader into the horror chambers of drug addiction, where people only exist for their next rush. It could keep the readers on the edge of their seats as it takes them over the edge of chemical dependency into a nightmare world, filled only with the screams of people suffering in their addiction as they live out their lives in a self-induced hell surrounded with abuse, neglect, poverty, fighting, shame, vomit, jailhouses, hospitals, and finally, the graveyard.
Download or read book Hillbilly Drug Baby The Poems written by Jesse-Ray Lewis and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they went to my father to see if he wanted to raise his twelve-year-old son he couldn’t pass the simple test of not having needles strewn all over the floor. The words are sometimes harsh and the visualizations raw, but so is reality for Jesse-Ray Lewis. He grew up in Appalachia surrounded by violence, drug dealing, and addiction. I held her for hours. There was foam at her mouth and blood as I cradled her. I am the one who closed her eyes. He entered foster care at age 12 and aged out of the system in 2016 at age 18. I thought, I want that. I want to live without walking from nowhere to nowhere. His poems rise up out of that shattered childhood as a quest for answers and a search for a new beginning. Hillbilly drug baby? Maybe that’s who I came out as. But it’s not who I want to be. In these poems, you see a young man on a precipice, wooed by drugs and forgetfulness, but longing for something bigger and better. I find a single droplet of hope and choke on it. " Unafraid, he probes our deepest fears---what would it be like to live that life? To plumb the depths of hell?" - Saundra Kelley, author of Southern Appalachian Storytellers
Download or read book Drugs written by Vera Howard and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Go Ask Alice written by Anonymous and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs… It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth—and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl’s harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful—and as timely—today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.
Download or read book So Sad Today written by Melissa Broder and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes the darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays that Roxane Gay called "sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous." Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.
