Spring's Fall

This book is a freak. Possibly a mistake from its very conception. A long story comprised of forty-six short-shorts, all of them in verse. A concept album in musical words. A postmodern musical on the page. This is an experiment. A frankenpoem. A HyperVerse. A collection very much out of step with most of its contemporaries.

Spring’s Fall is the story of one young man crossing the burning bridge between innocence and experience, a coming-of-age epic about fitting in and falling out, finding oneself and losing oneself, and discovering the meanings of life, love, and identity. Readers will follow Sevin as he ambles around his hometown one last time, reminiscing about the moments that made him into the young man he’s become. He reimagines, not only his own thoughts and feelings, actions and words, but also those of the girls and women who made a significant mark on him.

Rejecting the “rules” of what contemporary poetry should be, Spring’s Fall is unapologetically unfashionable, written in the spirit of the complex-but-imperfect music many of us hear and sing to our insecure selves in adolescence.

Not an easy read, but it’s not nearly as challenging as growing up.