Don Lusk Books, Poems with a Purpose, Lessons from the Dead

Lessons from the Dead

Here is a book of poems for prose addicted people: those who don’t like poetry or who have trouble understanding it. Our daily reading uses skills much different than those needed for appreciating poetry. This book helps you overcome this problem and read poems more effectively with essays after each describing their meaning and the poetic methods used in them. Illustrations or picture poems are also given to further help you sense the meaning of each work in a visual as well as aural way, and to add a multidimensional character to the book. These aids show you how to get the most from my poems, as well as from life itself!

My new book also shows you how to begin writing poems for your own enjoyment and to save your experiences to help others persevere over life’s rough spots. I describe my journey into the realm of poetry after a life time of trying to write novels and short stories, and the inspiration which led me there. I show how poetry produces many unexpected rewards for the reader, but even more for the writer himself. Here is a book to help you see life in an inspiring new light as well as appreciate the subtle nuances of this unique word art.

Another goal of my book is to put life in a more positive perspective. Our world is filled with so much suffering that we often overlook the good things that happen to us. My poems and essays concentrate on these more uplifting aspects of life, and suggest we view our lucky breaks as miracles from a providing God to help us through the trials which constantly beset us. This deepens the meaning of our good fortune and helps us accept life’s problems more patiently. By recounting my trials and the unexpected help I received, I try to show how God in His goodness cares for us all in just the same way.

For a physical description of my book and the extras included in it see the Ordering Information Page.

For more details please read the Lessons from the Dead synopsis or view a list of poems, essays and illustrations it contains. To show the diverse nature of the book please see some samples of selected poems and essays. An author’s biography shows my background and other works I have written. Topics not covered in the book like appreciating poetry, writing verse, self-publishing and book making are detailed on separate web pages with links to sources that helped me.