Love, Lust & Lunacy
Love in all of its forms is the subject of much of the world’s art, literature, movies, music and poetry.
LOVE, LUST & LUNACY: A Poet’s Inner Dialogue by Amy Kite, exemplifying the contradictions of love, is a passionate compilation of poetry written over a five-year time frame.
We love, we hate. We laugh, we cry.
We discover, we lose.
We fall, we get up again.
And again.
This book of poetry makes a great gift for lovers, for friends, for mothers, for daughters – for anyone who has been struck by the complexities of love – for anyone who wants to explore passion and its profound effects.
“I’ve always believed that to really embrace the sunshine, one needs to travel through some darkness. Not only did my explorations in love lead me to the bottom and back up and then to the bottom again, but they inspired me to write often as poetry became the only release I knew from my struggles, frustrations, joys and pains. Love is so abstract, and the highs and lows of it can be captured so simply and so beautifully through a poem.”
– Amy Kite
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT LOVE, LUST & LUNACY
CBS Radio News Editor and Writer
Amy Kite's poetry reminds me of me: of my worries, my cares, my base and building blocks, my self esteem, my internal dialogue, my healed self, my smoothed-over bruises. Her poems bring me to points on my path, while telling me more about hers. They feel real, raw, and at once of both now and yesterday.
Fashion Writer
A collection full of intense emotion delivered in short, punchy lines whose bite may at first seem softened through rhymes and Kite’s easy, conversational tone. But watch out, behind Kite’s verses is raw feeling, the sort that keeps many a woman up at night, trapped in thought, long after love and loss have come and gone.
Freelance Writer and Blogger
Kite’s poetry is gritty and raw, and touches anyone who has experienced the ups and downs of love and relationships. Her haunting, lyrical words illustrate the courage it takes to make hard decisions, the power of starting over and leave the reader feeling both heartbroken and hopeful.
Screenwriter
There’s a fine line between passion and pain but Amy Kite’s poetry creates a silken thread to travel effortlessly between the two.”