S33DS

S33DS takes us on a life-giving journey through the weeds, which are really just flowers after all. Each turn of the page is like the turning of a spade in the dirt, converting shame, trauma, and ego into fertile soil from which beauty and self-love grow in abundance. In few words with clever interplay of language and form, Delion crafts mantras and playful maxims, whereby a simple twist on perspective can guide us from living a life in tension to intention.

-Marla McPherson

S33DS is a thought-provoking memoir of despair and hope, confusion and connection, darkness, enlightenment, and ultimately of growth, all set in poetry.

Blending existentialism, psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and above all Taoism, it highlights the ambiguous paradoxes we all swim in, sometimes in the abstract, other times in the natural world. Pages overflow with puns and playful morphology, form reiterating content with a quirky and curious tone.

S33DS is personal without being self-absorbed, helpful without being preachy, critical without being condescending, tracing a line of self-doubt and wonder thereby revealing a soul searching for its footing in this mysterious experience we call life.

It is the breadcrumbs of one coming of age, full of nuggets to savor. Readers mindfully feeling through their own journey of growth are sure to find a companion in these pages.

-Ryan Trimble