The Verbarian presents

Sublimation and Other States of Change

A poetry collection written by PJ Goose

Below is an introduction by the author

"Sublimation and Other States of Change is most simply about a girl caught in a landslide of grief. I wrote this book during the aftermath of a catastrophic fight between my father and his alcoholism. I am lucky he survived. I was silently struggling with substance abuse issues of my own at the time as well. I comb through memories, experiences, fears, anger, and dreams, which of these are even mine anymore? Which of these belong to those who lived before me, pouring the total essence of their life into my existence. Where is the line between frozen solid and the air around it.

There is much that we inherit from our parents, money, connection, opportunity. For others, they are born with their parents debt. Debt of money, connection, dreams. Sometimes we are born in the dream of expectations that are not real anymore, yet still we are entangled in the control of those expectations. What is the reality of mortality, through the exploration of the first and biggest heartbreak, realizing dad is just a man. How do we move forward, when what we've built was based on misperception? What do we leave behind, when we're left behind?

Sublimation and Other States of Change is a snapshot of that transformation. It's a snapshot of sorting through the reality of our inheritances. It's the realization that the weight of all we freeze within our life, can always return, return to dust, return to air. The weight of all we hold may make us so cold, the air dissolves us into nothing, without the warmth of whom and what we love."

Sublimation and Other States of Change is available for purchase on Amazon