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Let your heart light your way out of the darkness...
You’re holding a collection of poems that speak to the deepest corners of grief…and healing. On Love and Light... captures the raw emotions of loss—each poem is a journey through heartache, memory, and resilience. Through his poetry, Kevin Hess invites his readers to explore their inner strength, the power of loving oneself, and the transformative healing that comes from self- compassion.
Kevin James Hess was born in the South, raised in the West, and has now settled in Northern Wisconsin with his love, a psychic kitty, and a star kitten. A lifelong writer, English major, and graduate of the Indigo Lotus School of Intuitive Arts, after a too-long career in IT Kevin is now aligned to where he belongs—among nature, auroras, water, and words.
Praise for On Love and Light...
Bold, witty, passionate, dark, Kevin Hess’s poems often present emotional clarity and moral insight in a single, memorable gesture. In these poems, a reader often feels as though the speakers are submerged in their own dark vision, then resurface, miraculous, delivered. These lyrically adept yet cooly self-conscious poems often engage loss to translate and transform our contemporary modes of love and living. Urgent, tender, imaginative: Kevin’s poems sizzle. —Heidi Lynn Nilsson, MFA,
Author of For the Fire from the Straw
These poems are like breathing in and out across seasons and time and places. Central to the theme is the heart and how it longs, grieves, breaks, and heals. Each poem is like a snapshot of this heart and how it is searching and finding its peace—in spite of upheaval or loss. —Carlyn C. Bland, Ed.S., Writer & Coach