Blood, Bones & Bliss: Transformational Slam Poetry on Love

Blood, Bones & Bliss covers the emotional spectrum of love from where it begins to where it ends. Expressed in free verse, this visual poetry etches the page with musical onomatopoeia and is designed to evoke emotive responses through imagery, longing, romance and seduction. Dealing with relationships from her twenties, the pieces create a searingly personal collection, employing language to process experience. Rather than depicting characters and actions, they portray the poet’s feelings and perceptions, leaving identities unknown. This volume is filled with poetry that speaks of heated passion, declarations, arguments, addictions, love both requited and unrequited, both fierce and tender. The poems are short, melodic, and contemplative, morsels of life. Between the author’s artwork interspersed throughout the book, and the unique arrangement of the words in each poem, Sclippa’s creations touch the senses. The words themselves dance, drift, huddle, or fall across the pages, adding meaning to the poetry. Reveling in passion over conformity, these poems are alive to the sounds of modern life while still rich with the styles of traditional love poetry. Annabel Sclippa captures the truth of what it means to love, to be in love, to be loved in return, and how it feels when love ends.