by Arvilla Fee (Author), Christopher Bays (Foreword by)
As human beings, we often search for ways to describe ourselves: our emotions, our thoughts, our deepest feelings, and fears. We want to put words to our pain, but we don't know how. The Human Side gives us those words. It gives us the connections we so desperately seek--lets us know we are not alone. Through free verse, traditional, and haibun poetry, we can see intimate reflections of ourselves or people we love as we deal with the complex yet common human struggles of addiction, grief, loneliness, loss, abuse, disease, homelessness, toxic relationships, or trauma. But The Human Side also gives us something else--hope. Human beings have an incredible capacity to survive, to overcome, to achieve what others told us we never could. And it's that spirit that will make us want to read this book again and again.
Author Biography
Arvilla Fee lives in Dayton, Ohio, is married to Air Force Colonel James Fee, and has six children. She is an adjunct English professor at Clark State College. She has had poetry published in numerous presses, including Poetry Quarterly, 50 Haikus, Inwood Indiana, Teach Write, Acorn, Last Leaves Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands Haibun, Voices of the Valley, and others.