Bøger af Joseph Leo Hickey

Unity is the second full length poetry book authored by Joseph Leo Hickey. Many of the themes from Baptism of Apathy are carried over into Unity. However, Unity is a more compact and concentrated volume. The work is divided into eight articles or poems of different lengths. There are three main themes of the poems in this work. The first is loneliness and how characters deal with being alone. The second is the idea that every person has a voice and that all voices are valuable. The third is the theme of unity which refers to the power of emotion to unite others. This is seen in the narrative flow of the poems. Each poem consists of the voices of more than one character and it is not always clear who the speaker is. As a result of this, it is easy to see the power of emotions to unite people. Emotions in this way transcend the individual. The main character in this work is Ella Sturm. She loses everything because of the supernatural powers at work in the world, striving to destroy her. Although Ella's story is the backbone of this work, the direct references to her are few and far between. At the same time she is emblematic of most of the poetic language that was utilized in writing this book.

This is the culmination of eleven years of poetic expression. It contains a mixture of poems describing personal experience and the experience of two characters (Serenity and Pain) and describes how Serenity deals with the end of her own life. A major theme of this book is how everything ends and how these characters deal with this realization. Poetry is the music that unites all of us and the words repeated back to you in these poems "all rhyme with the lonely part of your heart." These words we hear are the love poems at the end of our lives.

This is Joseph Leo Hickey's fourth full-length poetry book and follows two characters, Harmonie, a South African and Liefie, an American. Major themes tackled in this work include love, religion, poverty and overcoming the absurdity of racism.

This is a partner book to the previously published Melodium House book, Liefie. The books can be read in any order. It follows the voices of two characters, Harmonie and Liefie who are young and in love but are separated by being from two different countries. They face adversity, poverty, political turmoil and the temptation to fall into despair in the face of overwhelming odds against them ever living a happy life together.