Hero: A Young Poets Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781523976232)

Richard Anthony Silvia is an author, singer-songwriter, poet and intuitive, born in Newport, Rhode Island, into a blue collar working family that immigrated to America from the Azores Islands, Portugal. A student of life with a background in art and music, he is the founder of Yesrising.com, singer songwriter at The Rick Eva Music Project. Author of the books Merging Worlds and HERO. In 2012, the culmination of a series of life-altering events lead him on a personal quest realigning his passion and pursuits, out of which came the transformational narrative - Rising Heart, Beat and Song, a brief account of the years between 2009 and 2014. Merging Worlds is the creative energy emerging from a journey of loss, struggle, risk, and a redefined success. Hero, A Young Poet's Love, is a collection of poetical works from 1990 - 2001. Earlier poetical works, including "The Fragile Thread" and "Bits of Red" have been published in various literary journals and the song "Ooh the Sky" off the album 10 Years to Seventh Heaven received honorable mention for songwriting from Billboard. For more information, please visit www.yesrising.com and follow the author on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram or Medium.