Böcker av Jack Random

Lost in Her Soul is the fourth in Jack Random's Poetry Series. The title was inspired by a Ukrainian woman who spoke to a reporter after her city was destroyed by Russian missiles. Some of the poems in this collection are about war. Some are about growing up in an age of global warming. Others are concerned with the state of democracy in America and the world. Still others are simply about life at the beginning of the 21st century. What connects all of the poems (there are about 275 of them) is that they were written with the intent to move the reader, to touch the heart, to stir the emotions, in the hope that by doing so they will affect positive change in the world.

Life Songs is a collection of over three hundred poems reflecting the author's outlook, philosophy and values as an artist, a writer, a poet and a human being. They are personal poems. They are mirrors to the world through the lens of poetry. They do not aspire (as the writer's other works have) to change the reader's heart or mind. They simply reflect the poet's reality over his decades of existence. These poems contain a great affection and empathy for others within and without the poet's life. As he states in the introduction: "For though I despise cruelty and injustice I have always believed that humans are in their essence good and kind. It is only when the indignities of life alter the fundamentals of the self that humans tend to do heartless things." Life Songs also reflect the poet's great love of nature and an overriding respect for art and artists. "Poetry has long been like a secret love for which I never had enough time." In this work, after decades devoted to plays, novels and political essays, Jack Random made the time in the hope that readers may find in it some joy and inspiration.