78 poems - "All Beautiful Things Travel Alone is the most recent book from poet Mike Meraz. I have just read the collection of 78 poems and it is some of the best poetry I've read in a while. Mike writes with a palpable sense of honesty, mixed with vulnerability and insight. His words have a slickness to them, a bluesy coolness, yet they have a subtle weight that slowly seeps down and leaves a deep, full impression. Mike manages to get the poems down with a lot of soul and reflection, but avoids the pitfalls of "sappiness" and shallow emotionalism. The poetic terrain Mike explores most in the book is loneliness, love, isolation, women, the act of writing, the redemptive quality of art, and the joys & sorrows of everyday living." -Steve Calamars (author of "American Violence")
