The Fragments of Shadow & Sound: Prose & Poems - Paperback
The Fragments of Shadow & Sound: Prose & Poems - Paperback
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by Richard Michael Risi (Author)
The Fragments of Shadow & Sound: Prose and Poems is a genre-defying debut collection that fuses lyricism, vulnerability, and visceral honesty in a powerful journey through identity, longing, disability, love, mental health, and becoming.
Told in five evolving sections- Faultlines, Reflections, Thresholds, Descents, and Ascents-this collection offers a poetic mosaic that captures the trembling fault lines of youth and the climb toward selfhood. From confessional verse and formal structures to free-flowing prose poems and haunting haiku, every piece contributes to a dynamic narrative arc of fracture and reconstruction.
This is poetry for those who've lived at the edges:
- For the romantics trying to make sense of broken connections
- For the neurodivergent, disabled, and overlooked who still reach to be heard
- For those drawn to midnight cityscapes, orchestral metaphor, and the echo of the unsaid
With influences of musicality and kintsugi-the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold- The Fragments of Shadow & Sound leans into the beauty of imperfection. These poems are stained with ink, moonlight, silence, static, and flame.
You'll find reflections on:
- Living with visual and hearing impairments
- Navigating autism and emotional communication
- Unrequited love, infatuation, grief, and the resilience of friendship
- Mental health, self-worth, and the poetic body
"May you find yourself in the fragments-
and discover that even broken things can sing."
Perfect for readers of Ocean Vuong, Sabrina Benaim, Blythe Baird, Sierra DeMulder, or Clint Smith, this is a collection that invites you to read aloud, underline deeply, and return to the poems when you need a voice to echo your own.
