Features “Grandiosity of the Sick”, “Glitter In The Air”, and “she could not master astral projection”
from The Artist, The Muse on Amazon.com
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Poetry Reading & Analysis (The Silver Screen ~ Ink ~ Mars) (VIDEO)
Features “The Silver Screen”, “Ink”, and “Mars”
from The Artist, The Muse on Amazon.com
Poetry Reading & Analysis (Daydreams Are Shadows ~ You’ve Made An Author Out of Me ~ Natural) (VIDEO)
Features “Daydreams Are Shadows”, “You’ve Made An Author Out of Me”, and “Natural”
from The Artist, The Muse on Amazon.com
Rather Be Haunted (VIDEO)
Theme of Rather Be Haunted & Explanation behind Title
– Valerie Parente (7-13-2020)
Rather Be Haunted (A Poetry & Prose Collection) OUT NOW
Love. Heartache. Death.
Rather Be Haunted documents a dark period for the poet. Emotions linger like ghosts. Interpersonal relations cause palpable frustration. Death breaks the heart but in the most beautiful way.
Through chronological poetry and prose you can feel all that haunts the obsessive compulsive writer’s psyche as she tries to understand her hyper-sensitivities through rhymes and clever lines. As frustration builds, so does resilience, making the struggles that define our humanity all the more remarkable. After all, isn’t the struggle to make sense of emotions the grandest mark of being alive? What makes us human hurts; that is the gift of the universe.
Rather Be Haunted is the second volume of poetry & prose by Valerie Parente, featuring Mannequin Art alongside writing pieces. You can now own the collection in Paperback or Kindle!
Poetry & Prose (Volume 2) Update
Love. Heartache. Death.
What makes us human hurts;
that is the gift of the universe.
Poetry & Prose Collection
Volume 2
Coming soon…
The Artist, The Muse
The Artist, The Muse by Valerie Parente
What if the artist is her own muse?
Well then the art is her own truth.
This girl, a mastermind of the English language,
This girl, unmasked, has a mind of ink and pages.
Her metaphors have a way of making the literal very literary.
She believes in foreshadowing, the act of oncoming clouds.
Though it’s make-believing… for shadows, in fact, are uncommon in clouds.
A dreamer, she is.
A dream, where she lives.
She makes stories and tales
Making up stories entails
Being in private
There she writes this…
Man invested in an emotional girl
Manifested in the motion of words
Written on many sheets that hide
Ridden of men, she confides.
When she finally decides to share a work spawned from her mind
Then you find that she designed a rare world flawed on the inside.
Still, each of her works expressed.
Will teach of her worst and best.
Interesting how brave she is
In trusting the reader to read her.
She is the author who yearns as affliction writes her unique imagination.
Shares another, you soon learn as a fiction writer, you need image innovation.
A motif is a treasure.
A treasure is her motif.
Therefore, when the artist is her own muse
She makes use of her own truth.
Buy The Artist, The Muse : A Poetry & Prose Collection
– Valerie Parente (11-20-2019)
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