One year ago this week (technically on the 14th), I released my book solace: poems for the broken season into the world. And in honor of that day, here’s the complete playlist for the book – a song for every poem in every season: winter, spring, summer, and autumn.
I envisioned the playlists that went along with this as companions to enhance the experience of the book – read a poem, listen to a song, etc. I’m not sure anyone used them for this purpose, and I’m not even sure that would have felt cohesive. But it sounded lovely in my head, and I sure had a great time curating these playlists.
I had a few narrative ideas when I arranged the book itself, and thematic imagery that I wanted to put in the forefront. But this book happened to me more than I happened to it, so it was surprising to find narrative threads and imagery that I hadn’t intended springing out of it. Listening to the full playlist of all seasons locates all of those things into an entirely new ecosystem that is equally surprising and interesting. I find this encouraging – that the things we create can take on a life of their own beyond what we intended. It makes me want to create more of them (which I’m doing, of course).
So, happy birthday to SOLACE, and here’s to many more book birthdays in future years!
(if you read the book, would you be so kind as to leave your honest Amazon or Goodreads review for it? I would be most grateful!)