{"product_id":"listen-poems-on-being-gay-andres-jr-fragoso-9798201688554","title":"Listen, Poems on being Gay, Bipolar, and Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003eListen, Poems on being Gay, Bipolar, and Alive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting is my Pandora's Box. When I open it up and write, I do not know what hopes come out. Writing is cathartic to me. It helps me let out my frustrations and alleviates my pain. My illness, bipolar, is a chemical in-balance in the brain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was diagnosed with bipolar, the first four or five years flew by without a peaceful moment. I do not remember much about those years, only that I was asleep, lethargic, forgetful, sleeping most of the time, suicidal, manic, depressed, and forgot what else. It was a dark time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a while, I started to feel that I had just woken up. I tasted everything for the first time. I saw things in a new way. Life was good. It was re-birthing for me. I could not keep Hope bottled up. I let it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the interim, I went to therapy, and fortunately, I got something good out of it, Journaling and poetry. I wrote my feelings, fears, desires, and how I wanted to kill myself, contrasting them with how I wanted to live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI found a website where members would critique your poems. They wanted to publish a few of my poems. I submitted my first poem, \"My Vanessa, My Butterfly.\" A poem dedicated to my sister, who never gave up on me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone had mentioned combining my stories and publishing them. I did. I combined the best ones, created new ones, dedicated a few, and published them. My first book of poetry is full of errors, bad grammar, and frightening poems. I kept it that way and hoped people would see those poems' underlying illness. They are raw, passionate, and truthful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andres Jr. Fragoso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798201688554\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Writers Sidekick Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d","brand":"Andres Jr. Fragoso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47760269967615,"sku":"9798201688554","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01b07d09-ac3e-420a-b9d3-b019fe63e58b.jpg?v=1765513427","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/listen-poems-on-being-gay-andres-jr-fragoso-9798201688554","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}