How I Mean Nothing to You
Poetry Collection
by Eli Wilde
How I Mean Nothing to You is a free verse, fictional, poetry collection. It was originally published as The Lines, but morphed into this edition which includes amendments and additions to the poems. It is a collection for readers who enjoy themes of obsession, fantasy and isolation. Each poem combines with the others in the collection to form a story. This evocative anthology is about a nameless man who leaves Paris to return to London after breaking up with his lover. Travelling to Brighton by train each day, the man reflects about the woman he left behind and the life they once shared. Everything he sees and experiences while he travels the lines reminds him of her. Rain dripping down a carriage window; the smell of coffee as the porter wheels a trolley down the aisle; tall trees, leafless and grey, blurring past outside. As the story unfolds, the narrator mutates his own feelings into the imagined emotions of the people he encounters on his journey. Sometimes his fellow travellers weep the tears he cannot weep; sometimes they are hiding a secret, sometimes they die in place of him.
REVIEW
5 out of 5
This was an intimate, emotional, and sensual collection of poetry. Wilde does an amazing job of evoking sensations that go beyond just imagery. The journey from cover to cover brings the reader through a variety of emotions. The poems can be quite abstract at times, but that doesn’t detract from how they feel. If you love poetry that tugs at you on a more primal level, you’re going to enjoy this collection.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eli Wilde started writing when he was very young and stopped writing while he was still young. He didn’t pick up a pen again until many years later. Now that he is telling stories once more, everything feels as it should.