Breathe Big Love Hard

Joel's third book of poetry, breathe big love hard (written 2008-2016) joins Neon Shakespeare (written 1997-2004, published 2011) and Inside Cupid's Psyche (written 2002-2008, published 2013) in Joel's corpus and brings readers up to date with his current work.The meditations in this book might be well considered koans, in that a radical new perspective suddenly emerges upon reading. Each poem is a self-contained philosophical reflection, generally of a disruptive nature, a description...
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Joel's third book of poetry, breathe big love hard (written 2008-2016) joins Neon Shakespeare (written 1997-2004, published 2011) and Inside Cupid's Psyche (written 2002-2008, published 2013) in Joel's corpus and brings readers up to date with his current work.The meditations in this book might be well considered koans, in that a radical new perspective suddenly emerges upon reading. Each poem is a self-contained philosophical reflection, generally of a disruptive nature, a description of the familiar from an unfamiliar perspective.With over a decade teaching in university classrooms, Joel believes that the benefit of immersion in philosophy, literature, cinema, and the arts lies in the opportunity to restructure not only our thoughts but also the act of thinking itself.