The Muse of Love & Pain: a collection of dark poetry (Beautiful Shadows – Dark Poetry Series)

Product Description

SURRENDER TO THE MUSE OF LOVE AND PAIN.

The Muse of Love and Pain is the debut collection of dark poetry by A.X. Salvo inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, and Neil Gaiman.

Blurring the lines of poetry and fiction, Salvo’s first collection of poems blends elements of dark fantasy, myth, and horror to deliver a haunting, emotional experience.
The Muse of Love and Pain explores themes of obsession, death, and how quickly love can become madness.

A.X. Salvo’s writings and art have appeared in USA Today, MISC, Studio Visit Magazine, Bete Noir, The Adroit Journal, and The Anthologist. Salvo is also the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center grant for Poetry.

Review

PRAISE FROM READERS!

“LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! B
old. Honest. Excruciatingly real. Thank you for speaking truth to the darkness!”

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I am absolutely in love with the way A.X. Salvo lyrically writes their poems. Every last one stands on it’s own as a masterpiece of lovely imagery and story.”

“Visually intoxicating, the imagery is vivid and tastefully off-kilter.””The poet writes about passion so vividly that you feel his pain with every word. I highly recommend this collection!””Touching…I love how each poem reveals different emotions and journeys that I found myself forgetting where I was at that moment.””The characters are dark, yet devoted; destructive, yet alive and passionate.””In ‘The Muse of Love and Pain’, we are swept away into a dark, intimate journey of the search for the meaning and redemption in the very thing that haunts, torments and, for those willing to surrender entirely to it, consumes us all.”