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    Hooray for Pain!: Poetry and Prose about Embracing Life's Difficulty in Order to Overcome It.
    Hooray for Pain!: Poetry and Prose about Embracing Life's Difficulty in Order to Overcome It.
    Hooray for Pain!: Poetry and Prose about Embracing Life's Difficulty in Order to Overcome It.
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    Hooray for Pain!: Poetry and Prose about Embracing Life's Difficulty in Order to Overcome It.

    By Bacil Donovan Warren

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    Hooray for Pain! is a moving, poignant masterpiece of modern American poetry and prose.

    From the touching “Witnessing” and “Jeweled Curves” to heart-wrenching pieces like “Coming Home,” “Why?” and “See me after school,” Hooray for Pain! astutely captures the breadth and depth of human emotion, and the beautiful, occasionally painful reality of human experience.

    In Hooray for Pain!, author and veteran Bacil Donovan Warren has cast a brilliant light on the heartaches, happiness, confusion, and—of course—the pain of modern life. This powerful journey reminds us that while we are each of us individual people with unique experiences and perspectives, we are still connected by these shared emotions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBacil Donovan Warren
    Release dateJan 12, 2016
    ISBN9781310915888
    Hooray for Pain!: Poetry and Prose about Embracing Life's Difficulty in Order to Overcome It.
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    Bacil Donovan Warren

    Bacil Donovan Warren is an author and military veteran. After serving with the US Army Europe’s 3rd Armored Division as a tank gunner and loader, he deployed as a loader on an M1A1 tank with the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment from Ft. Bliss, TX for Operation Desert Shield. Later, he served his community as a Paramedic and a CPR instructor before becoming a full-time author.Donovan currently lives in Tucson, AZ.

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      Hooray for Pain! - Bacil Donovan Warren

      Hooray For Pain!

      Poetry and prose about embracing life's difficulty in order to overcome it.

      Copyright © 2014 by Bacil Donovan Warren

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2014

      Quixotic Raindrop Publishing

      As I publish this book, my dad Chris lies in a hospital bed, which he will never leave. Dad, for all the pain I may have involuntarily inflicted upon you, I hope you can forgive me. — bdw

      Witnessing

      Tucson Summer

      Open Desert Sky

      See me after school

      Mirror

      Dedications and Unforgiven

      Beginning of Worrying

      Death Wish

      Beautiful You

      Coming Home

      Confusion

      Dialog

      Ode to schizophrenia

      How much the ray of sunshine

      Don’t Look

      Hiding

      Hooray for Pain

      I know that I am happy

      Jeweled Curves

      Your Eyes

      fall, leaves, to the ground

      Friendship

      Why?

      Eulogy for a fallen friend

      Death of a Candle

      Shadow Woman

      Witnessing

      Fall forth, so I may feel again

      The gravity you emanate

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