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Inept Love by HR Harper

$17.99

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979-8-89990-453-0

2026

This title will be released on May 8, 2026

Inept Love is a collection of ruminations on the kinds of love.  Although often couched in the particulars of relationship, the poems report on the experience of being alive in the current world, a world of impermanence and confusing transitions.  Modern love is, by definition, a struggle to maintain. The world moves forward, and each movement brings us closer to an end. Courage in the face of endings is the way love is shared, and we all, no matter what our flavor of love is, are only partially courageous.  Loving, inept or not, is the engine that drives us, that reminds us of the privilege of being alive, alone and together.

HR Harper lives in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, California. A student of the emptying traditions, he writes to understand the nature of contemporary human consciousness and relationships in the natural world we seem to be destroying

PRAISE:

 

“Juxtaposing the fierce, earthy, and beautiful imagery of the wild with all the intangible but burdensome things a person brings with them.”

–Nicholas Trandahl, author of Mountain Song, and editor of The Dewdrop.

 

“HR’s poetry offers originality of subject, voice, style, language and imagery.”

–Strider Markus Jones, author of Pomegranate Flesh and editor of Lothlorien Poetry Journal

 

HR Harper presents haunting metaphors of forgotten promises and unpaid debts.”

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