Kirjahaku

This volume is a collection of the political cartoons of Brandon Noel from the first year of the Trump administration. If you are a Trump supporter Don't buy this book. I doubt you ll enjoy the satire in it. And quite frankly you probably wont get the joke any way.

This collection of poems spans the course of the last eight years of my life. In that time I've been married, had a daughter, worked the blue collar life in a white collar world. Now, I'm going through a divorce, trying to do my best as a single dad, walking into a path I never anticipated I would be on. These poems are my song in that darkness.

Foreword by Austin Wolfe. This second collection of poems from the author explores running themes from both the past, childhood and the sharp cut of the future. The style is a slight departure from Brandon's "The Season", choosing to stretch out across multiple pages often a more narrative driven poetry. Single fatherhood, post-modern adulthood and what it means to discover new versions of the self when the old ones have failed.

We cannot anticipate all that life will require of us. The unexpected trials of living come for everyone. What shapes us, are the choices we make in the face of those who have hurt us and those whom we have hurt. In his third collection, Ohio poet Brandon Noel comes full circle, dealing with the great paradox of our seemingly limitless personal depth, and the unshakeable sense that we are incomplete. These poems explore both ends of that extreme, coming to different answers and more questions, squared often in the walls of love and forgiveness over despair.