Sex Is a Blessing from Heaven, Love Is a Curse from Hell

By Jon Cabanski

This book doesn't whisper. It drinks. It bleeds. It tells the truth no one asked for.
A raw, unfiltered snapshot of a life lived on the edge, these texts move through loneliness, obsession, excess, and brutal self-awareness. The collection opens with Sunday Morning (1995), a quiet, aching meditation on spiritual emptiness - then quickly descends into a fragmented, episodic confession: about women, about alcohol, about writing, about love lost and meaning dismantled.

Nothing here is polished. The language is bare, vulgar, and fearless. Tenderness collides with bitterness. Desire with disgust. Hope flickers like the last cigarette in an empty bar. In the tradition of Bukowski, but with its own uncompromising voice, this is literature stripped of manners and masks.

Selected poems from the 1990s trace the author's evolution-from an idealistic young poet who believed in love, humanity, and the future to a disillusioned "whiskey writer," hardened by experience yet unable to stop writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G6DHNXL3
• ISBN13: 9798277574515
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"