High Wire Darlings - Paperback

by Kalyn Roseanne Livernois (Author)

Note: This book now feels like another life. I wrote it when I knew little about poetry and thought editing was more of a nice idea than a necessary practice. I have thought many times about taking it down, feeling like it's not at all representative of my work. Then I remembered Julia Cameron's discussion of how artists rarely get to see people's earliest work. The first poems, the student films, etc. It can make us feel like people started out great and like we must do the same. I'm not trying to claim greatness now, either. I'm just saying, here's my very early stuff. It's all been a part of my process and my growth. And now you can have it for cheap!

Original synopsis:
We all feel the cracking in our bones, the strain of our hearts, and the aching that comes with growing up. Loving, love lost, adventure, a hunger for home (whatever "home" means), nostalgia, angst. We all just want someone to look us in the face and say, "I know exactly how you feel." And that is precisely what High Wire Darlings is here to tell us.

Author Biography

Kalyn RoseAnne Livernois (lee-vare-nwa. It's French) is still going through her quarter-life crisis in the mountains of North Carolina. She writes from an attic room that turns golden approximately two hours before sunset every day. Her favorite color is always blue (though it's not her favorite feeling), and she is often found contemplating how peculiarly similar human beings are to one another. "Emotions are our universal truth," she says.