The Chaos of Longing - Softcover

Robinson, K. Y.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692649093 ISBN 13: 9780692649091

Publisher: K. Y. Robinson, 2016

Synopsis

The Chaos of Longing is a prose and poetry collection draped in raw honesty, ache, and eroticism. The book explores trauma, mental illness, love, heartbreak, and the realizations from it all.

Some excerpts may be triggering or contain mature content.

About this title

About the Author:

K.Y. Robinson is an introverted writer based in Houston, Texas. She has loved words pressed against pages since childhood and has been chasing that feeling ever since. The Chaos of Longing is her first published poetry collection. She received a B.A. in Journalism and a M.A. in History from Texas Southern University. To contact the author, please visit kyrobinson.net.

From the Inside Flap:

Organized in four sections - Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany - K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores what it is to want in spite of trauma, shame, injustice, and mental illness. It is one survivor's powerful testimony, and a love letter "to those who lie awake burning.

* A woman of color, abuse-survivor, and sufferer of mental illness, Robinson speaks to and for an underheard population.

* This completely revised edition contains 50 pages of all-new material.

About this edition

• Publisher: K. Y. Robinson
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0692649093
• ISBN 13: 9780692649091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118