Love: A Many Splintered Thing

Love doesn't stay still. It shapes us, rocks us to our core, and slowly builds the world we live in, one moment, one ache, one quiet victory at a time. In this collection of 624 poems, Scott Thornton traces love through every phase it moves us through: the breaking, the holding, the rebuilding, the hope that keeps showing up even when it's been broken a thousand times over. Some poems sit in the raw ache of love falling apart. Others rest in the steady, unglamorous work of love holding firm. Together, they refuse to treat love as a single feeling frozen in time, and instead capture it as something alive, morphing and evolving depending on where you are and who you're becoming. Whether you're in the middle of heartbreak, holding onto something steady, stuck in the longing of someone not yours, or simply trying to understand what love has made of you, Love - A Many Splintered Thing meets you exactly where you're at. If you've ever needed a book that doesn't just describe love, but actually feels like it in all its incarnations, this is that book.