"Soul Bleeds"
The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings
of K.S. Wiesner

Looking without…

As love mirrors the heart, poetry mirrors personality. Many poets choose to write about things outside of themselves—nature, God, events. This mirrors their personal character and the way they look at the world.

Looking within…

Other poets take the outside world into themselves and use the intimate emotions to reveal their own hearts.

Just looking…

Then there are poets like me, who do a little of both…or a lot of neither.


If you’re looking for flowery observations on nature, rhyming pieces with any type of standard or pattern, seemingly meaningless verses that you have to know the "code" to understand, you won’t find it with Soul Bleeds The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner. The 36 poems (12 in each section) included in the book are eclectic, to say the least. They’re a combination of honesty, raw emotion, vivid imagery, gritty reality, story metaphors, introspection, depression, and even "song-like" verses. My idea of great poetry is something that I can relate to, something that moves me, something that takes the human condition and makes it both frail and somehow beautiful in its starkness. It’s my hope that you feel these same things as you read my heart through various phases of my life.

Reviews:

"Free verse as rhythmic as the sea, SOUL BLEEDS sings a lyric song of love in its many permutations. The jeweled words flow from the poet's heart, but the distilled truths were wrest from the fabric of her soul." ~Award-winning, best selling author, Patricia Lucas White

"Karen Wiesner's words follow a willow-wispy me-girl through every twist and turn of romantic love from SOMETIMES I DON'T LOVE YOU to LOVE YOU, an unconditional love. Karen's wispy girl has grown into a willow-woman bending toward God and a love she can't lose in AND IT ISN'T THAT. Saved to the last, TOUCH, probes a woman's heart, bound in the pain and gain of the gift of love for child, husband, God, self. Karen makes me catch my breath, remembering."
~~~~Rose Hampton Newton, author of Rumination Road

"Karen Wiesner's poetry is her own. Though some of her poems, like TOUCH, are dark, most of her poems do not fit the mold of dark poetry-or any mold for that matter. Her poetry coins its own term: "High Drama." Wiesner's poetry is broken hearts, it's love, it's redemption and fear; it's loneliness. Her poetry is honest to her heart.
STEAL AWAY and YOUR FATHER'S LOVE are my favorites in the collection." ~Valerie Hardin, acclaimed Gothic poet; EPPIE finalist for her Gothic poetry collection in 2000 and for her children's e-books in 2000 and 2001.

"Love is a choice." This poem title from K.S. Wiesner's book "Soul Bleeds The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings" is an excellent description of how someone will react to it. You either choose to love it or leave it. It is a book filled with the painful realities of life and those who prefer rose-colored glasses may find it hard to read.

"[In] Part III: The Many Faces of.Fear.... the author has found more than fear. She has found her ability to make us feel. The many faces of fear are also the many faces of pain and this section of K.S. Wiesner's book is the most compelling.

"R.I.P. {Repose Inside of Pain}" An interesting title suggesting where this poem will lead. But, as you read the poem, you find that there is no repose. While "Touch" is the last poem in this collection of love, faith and fear, for me, it was the best. It leaves you with an aching heart. It takes you down a maze where you feel the sorrow of another's pain. It reminds you that life makes no promises."

Reviewed by Belinda Anne Landtroop - author of Whispers of Love



Read an excerpt Here

About the Author:

K.S. Wiesner is the pen name of award-winning author Karen Wiesner. Karen has been writing poetry since she was a teenager and had several poems published in various anthologies before the age of 16. Hesitant to call herself a poet, she prefers to describe her poems as "writing in flow; kind of like a street version of classical poetry. If you like reading the lyrics of songs from J-cards or CD booklets, you'll love my "poems."

In addition to poetry, Karen Wiesner, named a "leading romance writer" by The Writer Magazine, is the best-selling author of the Gypsy Road Series, the Angelfire Trilogy, Dare to Love Series as well as upcoming Wounded Warriors Series (coming 2002) from Hard Shell Word Factory. Her fiction novels from Hard Shellhave been nominated for Romantic Times' 1999 E-Book of the Year, the Frankfurt Award and multiple Eppies. In July 2001, Hard Shell Word Factory published ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING Q&A, the compilation of Karen's now-defunct Inkspot column. The book includes bonus columns never previously released.

Karen is also the author of ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING The Definitive Guide {The Most Complete Reference to Non-Subsidy E-Publishing}, a bestselling, Frankfurt nominated writer's reference. The Guide was a finalist in the 1999 EPPIE and won the 2000 EPPIE for Best Non-fiction. The 2000 Edition is published by Avid Press, LLC, is excerpted in the 2001 Writers Digest Novel & Short Story Market and made the Inscriptions Books of the Year list. A FREE preview (zipped HTML format) of the Guide is available by sending an e-mail to kwiesner@cuttingedge.net  with "EPTDG Preview" in the subject line.

Avid Press is the publisher of Karen's first paranormal romance, SWEET DREAMS, which was a Reviewers' Top Pick for 2000, received
a coveted 4 1/2 star Top Pick review from Romantic Times Magazine and is a finalist in the prestigious 2001 Daphne du Maurier Award.

Karen won the 2000 Inscriptions Engraver Award for best online columnist, the Year 2000 for eXcellence in E-publishing Award: E-author from http://www.ebookadvisor   and was a recipient of The Simply Charming Award for outstanding promotion of e-books. She was also nominated for the 2000 EPIC Florence Moyer Service Award.

Upcoming releases for Karen include: the 2001 edition of the Guide (Avid Press, July 2001), another non-fiction/writer's reference titled THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER {or how to avoid carpal tunnel with all those revisions} (Avid Press, LLC, Late 2001), a children's story written with Linda Jablonicky, called THE CODY KNOWS CHRONICLES (CrossroadsPub.com, Late 2002), as well as the first book of the Wounded Warriors Series, RELUCTANT HEARTS (Hard Shell Word Factory, Early 2002.)

Projects in the works for Karen: a mainstream romantic suspense called NO ORDINARY LOVE, the second book of the Wounded Warriors Series- WAITING FOR AN ECLIPSE, as well as a psychological thriller written with author Christine Spindler with the working title of DANCE OF DEATH.

For more information about Karen and her work, visit her web site at http://www.karenwiesner.com

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