Love & Angst

Love & Angst is a book especially of interest to anyone who has ever desired to be the subject of and inspire love poems, love letters and the like but doesn't exist within that sort of environment. At its most basic, it is simply a recounting of the adventures of a hopeless romantic and his attempts to find true love. Told through the poems and prose of interactions with the objects of his desire - Women whose attentions alternatively take him to the dizzying heights of man’s highest emotions - Love - and then drive him to the lowest depths of man’s darkest emotion - Angst. It is more than just a collection of poems and letters. It tells a compelling and emotionally moving story that has a beginning, a middle and an end.

This story relates the hopes and dreams of new beginnings when encountering a new love, the give and take of lovers getting to know each other and the devastating desolation that results when love’s promise falls short and disintegrates. It is, unfortunately a story of hope and disappointment too many of us can relate to. And therein lays the point of Love & Angst - expressing these emotions - even though they may not be the darkest nor most sublime. In a world where most of us get too little positive or too much negative of these feelings to put into their own words, this missive, much like listening to a popular song, attempts to assist the reader in “living” - or perhaps more accurately “re-living” - the moments.