WORDSONGS-3, Recovery is the third album in The Wordsongs Series. The pains of life do not spare any of us. We all struggle and look for something to ease the pain. This book follows the broken dreams of a lonely man who used drugs and alcohol to cope with the pain in his life. Observe his broken dreams and struggles on side one and his re-awakening to a new life in recovery on side 2. In this inspirational and innovative book, C. Steven Blue presents another great set of heartfelt wordsongs. The Wordsongs Series Each book in this series contains 20 pieces designed to be similar in scope to a music record album, with side one and side two, but instead of songs it is made up of a style of poems called wordsongs. Each book is a concept album, with a general theme running through it, told in verse format. Wordsongs are the original creation of C. Steven Blue, who also created a definition for this concept: word'song, n. [AS. wordsong.] 1. a poem that is like a song or could be a song 2. verses that tell a story in song-like rhythm, often with a refrain 3. a song that you read *Note: The wordsongs in this book are extracted from the 186 page, full-length book by C. Steven Blue: S.O.S. Songs Of Sobriety A Personal Journey Of Recovery. That book took over 20 years to write and covers the first 10 years in the recovery process. More information on that book can be found here, www.wordsongs.com/sos
About the Author: World renown performance poet, C. Steven Blue, has been called the last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation. Some of the younger poets he works with have referred to him as a modern day Robert Frost. He is a poet, publisher, producer & host of poetry & art events, musician, artist, multi-media performer and videographer. Raised in Southern California, Steven is retired from a 27 year career in Hollywood stage production. He now lives in Eugene, Oregon. He has performed from coast to coast, been published in over a dozen countries and interviewed on television, radio and in literary magazines. His work appears in countless literary journals and anthologies, both in print and online. Steven stands outside the normal conventions of modern poetry. He is a lyrical/performance poet, reading and performing his poetry from a unique rhythmic perspective: at the crossroads of poetry and music. His poems have poured out of him since he was a boy, winning his first poetry award at age twelve. Steven has five published books of his own. With his publishing company, Arrowcloud Press, he has also published other poets as well as poetry anthologies for the city of Eugene, Oregon and the Oregon Poetry Association. Through the years he has produced & hosted many poetry & art events, throughout Oregon and California. They have benefitted local charities and fundraisers, as well as given opportunity and exposure to countless poets, artists and musicians. He has videotaped many of these events and showcases them through hundreds of videos on his YouTube channel. Here, the performers can view themselves in action, as well as show their work to friends and family. These videos also serve as a window of modern artistic expression for the generations to come. You can view them here: https: //www.youtube.com/user/csblue/playlists. Steven is also the pioneering author of the very first-ever poetry chapbook actually published as a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/591180474377593. More information on C. Steven Blue can be found on his website: www.wordsongs.com