My Soul in Stanzas (Volumes 1&2)

By Liam Reid

My Soul in Stanzas - Volume 1&2 is a sprawling, emotionally charged compendium that documents a poet's evolution from intimate confessionals to politically conscious elegies. It reads not as a curated volume but as a life-in-progress: love, trauma, faith, and social violence recorded almost in real time.

The dominant energy is confession and memorialization. Reid writes from the wound and through the wound - every poem attempts to preserve or redeem loss: lost lovers, lost parents, lost teachers, lost innocence, and lost nations. It's both personal diary and historical lament.

Stylistically, the language is modern free verse with a heavy influence from the confessional tradition (Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, early Hughes), but also from the elegiac lyricism of war poets (Owen, Sassoon) and the raw immediacy of contemporary spoken-word poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPCYRN95
• ISBN13: 9798233207938
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Liam Reid
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"