The Life and Death of a Modern Gentleman
165 epic poems, 6 Flash Fiction stories, and 70 hand-painted acrylic illustrations comprise this poetry book celebrating masculinity through the birth, life, and death of a Modern Gentleman (mod-gent). Potential readers - don't be alarmed! Only the very best of man's heroic successes and damned failures live on these pages!
This experience is divided into 6 chapters of a man's life: Infancy, Boyhood, Teenager, Manhood, Parenthood, and the Elderly Years. Read through and participate in what it feels like to throw your first punch in school, struggle with the pain of teenage heartbreak and loneliness, imagine the strength and despair of being a powerful and despised young man, imagine the isolation and jealousy of knowing you will never give birth...never have that connection with a child like it does with its mother. Lastly, grow and understand as age catches up and you are forced to face all those things you fled for so many years.
This books is not just a compilation of poems. This book is an objective, visceral journey of life through the eyes of a middle-class, down-to-earth, regular Modern Gentleman. See the world as a man does. Only then will you truly understand what it means to have boy parts!
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