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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Penny s Poems written by Penny M Glenn and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 85 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 Crazy Brave A Memoir written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, Crazy Brave is a haunting, visionary memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding a voice.
Download or read book Arsonist Drugs Salvation Revolution written by Ashley Cook and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arsonist: Drugs, Salvation, & Revolution is an original collection of poems and memoir aimed to ignite a fire in those who read it. In this reflection, author Ashley Cook takes you on a journey through addiction, mental health, and domestic violence. While staying constant in her expression that the journey was always Good, even when she didn’t believe it. This thought-provoking book will leave you feeling confident about all to come. Including poems from all stages of her journey, this collection is a first-hand account of spiritual evolution. Through the practice of learning to listen, knowing who we are, and the reassembly of our thoughts; Ashley believes that you too will begin to see how powerful you really are. Brought back to life following an overdose, Ashley takes you moment by moment through her arrival to bonus life, and all the lies needing to be set aflame along the way.
Download or read book Drugs Detonate Death a Message to the Youths written by Hassan Omolowo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DRUGS DETONATE DEATH-A Message to the Youths by Hassan Omolowo comprises thirty six poems on the multi-faceted effects and problems of hard drug usage and trafficking as they affect all human beings and societies. The scourge of hard drug usage and trafficking affects every human being in proximate and remote destructive ways. Terrorism,, social upheavals, lacerated value systems, unstable political leaderships, familiar squabbles, etc. have sprouted out of the seeds of substance abuse planted in nooks and crevices of the global village. A veritable avenue of halting the slide down into the pit of global confusion and terror is to direct a literary enlightenment program towards the young generation of future leaders of all races, cultures and nations. This is the mission of 'DRUGS DETONATE DEATH-A Message to the Youths.' This poetry is the prelude to a number of derivatives that include a card game to played and enjoyed all over the world.
Download or read book I Will Destroy You written by Nick Flynn and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest collection from Nick Flynn, whose “songs of experience hum with immediacy” (The New York Times) Beginning with a poem called “Confessional” and ending with a poem titled “Saint Augustine,” Nick Flynn's I Will Destroy You interrogates the potential of art to be redemptive, to remake and reform. But first the maker of art must claim responsibility for his past, his actions, his propensity to destroy others and himself. “Begin by descending,” Augustine says, and the poems delve into the deepest, most defeating parts of the self: addiction, temptation, infidelity, and repressed memory. These are poems of profound self-scrutiny and lyric intensity, jagged and probing. I Will Destroy You is an honest accounting of all that love must transcend and what we must risk for its truth.
Download or read book I Know Your Kind written by William Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work quakes and blooms and dares us to try to resist the world's grace."-Ada Limón
