Passion Demands a Vocabulary of Desire

Bauke Kamstra

Provoke conversation and bring some style and charm to your social media presence. This micro-poetry series is for savoring, relishing, and sharing with the world. The ebook versions come as a gift with the books, and within the digital copies are links with each poem to share with your followers on Twitter. We want to change the world by injecting into it beauty and passion. You can help by sending Bauke's Breathtaking micropoems out. 

Volume 1: Poetry to lust for.​
Publication date: July 29, 2019
Genre: Micro Poetry
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-925417-97-5
eBook: ISBN: 978-1-925417-98-2

Bauke Kamstra’s words are sparse and minimalistic. They focus on the human body: love, lust, and the physicality between lover and lover or mother and child. People and their penchant for sensuality is infinitely alluring. We see each other through filters of attraction, always passionate, always complex. We are all involved in the search for beauty, but the artist is dedicated to a search that breaks conventional boundaries ... one that is still wholly human. 

Volume 2: Poetry to die for.​
Publication date: January 7, 2020
Genre: Micro Poetry
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-925965-26-1
eBook: ISBN: 978-1-925965-27-8

This book is Alchemy, mundane lead gets transformed to gold, poem by poem, consummation by birth, consummation by death, consummation by transformation. Each poem is coded with the symbols of life. Every day we struggle to find a little more perception, a little more comprehension. These poems will help.

Volume 3: Poetry to drown in.​
Publication date: May 26, 2020
Genre: Micro Poetry
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-925965-30-8
eBook: ISBN: 978-1-925965-31-5 

As in Volumes 1 and 2, the poems comprising Volume 3 are as succinct as they are spellbinding. With a sensuality that suggests a new Song of Songs, and themes exploring the relationship between human and water, these poems don’t just delve more deeply into the passion of the lover. They form a fugue-like dialogue with the beloved that explores both the innocent elation and worldly debasement of sexuality as a beautifully rendered conceit for the spiritual seeker’s relations with the divine.

Volume 4: Poetry to breathe in.​
Publication date: October 20, 2020
Genre: Micro Poetry
Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-925965-38-4​
eBook: ISBN: 978-1-925965-39-1

In his fourth collection, Bauke Kamstra presses even deeper into the unknown and unknowable of human nature, even as he raises micro-poetry to a new formal perfection with a virtuosity that is as vibrant and revelatory as it is fluid and natural. Rife with the lush, concise sensuality of Bashō’s greatest haiku, yet laughing in the face of strangling constraints, these poems explore the relationship between human and air, breathing, space, and an apprehensive grounding in reality. A sense of need will take you on a varied voyage beyond the farthest edge of desire, only to leave you craving more.

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