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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. John and JosephA Roman Elegy for Keats and Severnby Gregory Melchor-Barz A small room in Rome. One dying poet. One painter who will not leave. A luminous meditation on love, grief, and the ethics of remembering. Rome, 1821. In a quiet apartment above the Spanish Steps, poet John Keats lies dying. At his side, Joseph Severn-his closest companion and a struggling young painter-refuses to leave. What unfolds between them in those final months is more than friendship, more than history has dared to name. Their world contracts to a room where silence speaks volumes, where a single bed becomes sanctuary, and where every breath shared is a vow unspoken. While Keats fears his legacy will dissolve, "writ in water," Severn captures him in strokes of tenderness and reverence, not on marble but in memory, in sketch, in soul. Official histories remember Severn only as the man who watched a poet die. But what if the deeper truth lived in the pauses between words, in the hush of watchful nights, in a love that defied language itself? John and Joseph is a luminous reimagining of a bond history could not name, an elegy forged in exile, devotion, and the sacred intimacy of shared silence. Gregory Melchor-Barz offers a tender, defiant meditation on queer love, grief, and the quiet heroism of bearing witness. This is not a tale of grand declarations. It is something truer: a love story that asked for no permission, needed no applause, and endured (eternally) in the margins. When John Keats lies dying in a small Roman room, Joseph Severn-an earnest, fragile-eyed painter-refuses the tidy comforts of distance. He trades public ambition for private devotion: a nightly vigil of cooled broth, warmed cloths, and charcoal sketches that try to hold a face the world will soon reduce to rumor. As Italy's light thins, Joseph discovers that witnessing is both a craft and a covenant: to keep a life from dissolving into gossip, verse-summaries, or worse, silence.Melchor-Barz's John and Joseph is a slow, luminous novel about the economy of attention. In prose that listens, the novel asks a single, intimate question: how does one render a life so the world remembers it as it was-messy, tender, and untranslatable-without turning the living into a relic? Target Audience: Elegant literary fiction, evokes readers of Ann Patchett and Colm Toibin-lyrical, reflective, quietly grave. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Daily Aphorism: Tiny Truths for a Curious Lifeby Gregory Melchor-Barz What do a perfectly timed nap, a well-arched eyebrow, and a rubber chicken have in common? In this delightfully wise and wildly curious book of daily aphorisms, they all contain the secret to a better life. A Daily Aphorism: Tiny Truths for a Curious Life is a charming collection of bite-sized brilliance-one page per day, one idea at a time. Born in COVID-era solitude and scribbled with a fountain pen in the company of ink, internet friends, and existential musings, these mini meditations are at once playful and profound. Each entry is more than a clever quote-it's a miniature philosophy lesson disguised as a wink. Whether it's encouraging you to fail with flair, wear mismatched socks with pride, or find your truth somewhere between a nap and a paradox, this book is your companion in joyful living, gentle rebellion, and thoughtful pause. Perfect for bedside tables, bathroom breaks, coffee rituals, or existential spirals. Read daily. Reflect often. Laugh generously. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. John and JosephA Roman Elegy for Keats and Severnby Gregory Melchor-BarzRome, 1821. In a quiet apartment above the Spanish Steps, poet John Keats lies dying. At his side, Joseph Severn-his closest companion and a struggling young painter-refuses to leave. What unfolds between them in those final months is more than friendship, more than history has dared to name.Their world contracts to a room where silence speaks volumes, where a single bed becomes sanctuary, and where every breath shared is a vow unspoken. While Keats fears his legacy will dissolve, "writ in water," Severn captures him in strokes of tenderness and reverence, not on marble but in memory, in sketch, in soul.Official histories remember Severn only as the man who watched a poet die. But what if the deeper truth lived in the pauses between words, in the hush of watchful nights, in a love that defied language itself?John and Joseph is a luminous reimagining of a bond history could not name, an elegy forged in exile, devotion, and the sacred intimacy of shared silence. Gregory Melchor-Barz offers a tender, defiant meditation on queer love, grief, and the quiet heroism of bearing witness. This is not a tale of grand declarations. It is something truer: a love story that asked for no permission, needed no applause, and endured (eternally) in the margins. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is not just a book of poems. Queer Images is a reckoning-a luminous archive of longing, survival, and self-assertion. With each line, Gregory Melchor-Barz opens a doorway into the layered lives of queer people, where identity is both wound and triumph, silence and symphony.These poems speak from the margins and the center, from church pews and shadowed alleyways, from moments of shame and flashes of pride. At once deeply personal and fiercely communal, they explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality, and history. The language is unflinching. The imagery is unforgettable.What emerges is a tapestry of courage and contradiction, of vulnerability and defiance. This is poetry as witness. As resistance. As celebration.Queer Images invites readers to step closer-to see what's often hidden, to hear what's rarely spoken aloud. It's a collection for anyone who has ever felt unseen, unheard, or unworthy-and for everyone ready to listen with open eyes and an open heart.Enter this sanctuary of verse. Come for the beauty. Stay for the truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …