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Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky

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Excuse Me As I Kiss The SkyRudy Francisco, 2023 LIMITED SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE NOW! Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With every book, the author utilizes various tools and methods to excavate his experiences and find poetry in everyday things. Rudy believes that poetry can be found in our immediate surroundings at any given moment and poignantly includes this idea as the foundation of his work. In this book, Rudy

Rudy Francisco, 2023

LIMITED SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE NOW!

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is the third installment of the Rudy Francisco poetry collection. With every book, the author utilizes various tools and methods to excavate his experiences and find poetry in everyday things. Rudy believes that poetry can be found in our immediate surroundings at any given moment and poignantly includes this idea as the foundation of his work.

In this book, Rudy Francisco bravely explores poetic forms such as the contrapuntal, golden shovel and the ode, while offering explanations and his approach to using the aforementioned. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is meant to inspire its readers, expose them to different avenues of approaching the act of writing poetry and invites them to try it for themselves. Francisco takes the nuances of the craft that feel esoteric and breaks them down so the average person can engage and enjoy poetry in ways that feel familiar.

The author uses this book to further explore subjects such as love, heartbreak, identity and healing. Rudy takes feelings, turns them into vehicles that tell stories, exhibits how multifaceted the human experience is and how connected all of us actually are.

Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky is insightful and commanding but also comforting.

Praise for Rudy Francisco

Rudy Francisco uses words like we'd imagine a bird to take flight: determined and effortlessly. In his newest poetry collection, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky, Francisco shows us every bit of his wingspan. Using different poetic forms becomes alchemy in how he transforms a barber into a magician, cologne into a promise, and a children's game into generational healing. Rudy's poetry is a valiant mirror held to each reader that has been denied flight; it is a vow to forget gravity and continue heading straight for the immensity of a blue sky.

– Yesika Salgado, author of Corazón

In Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky, Rudy Francisco weaves together various poetic forms, hip-hop, and storytelling in a way that makes the quotidian seem spectacular. This is one of the things he is best at, making the arcane accessible in a way that allows us all, professional and pupil alike, the ability to kiss the sky.

– Javon Johnson, author of Ain’t Never Not Been Black

Consider this collection a warm-handed invitation, Rudy Francisco daring us, with dazzling innovation, to engage with form as both celebration and evolution, to embrace each poem as a cabinet of possibilities, to find, in the vastness of lived experience, a chorus that calls to us. Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky reads like a love letter, better yet a love song, and the lyrics are just for you—a reminder that “all the things we’ve been through exist somewhere inside a melody.”

– Jay Ward, author of Composition

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M.Luria
Boise, US
★★★★★ 5
love shifters
Format: Kindle
Great series with shifters living with and overcoming traumatic experiences with love, community, compassion, kindness and respect. A great series for these times.
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Laura Straub
West Palm Beach, US
★★★★★ 3
Heather's story
Format: Paperback
3 stars - This is the second book in the Elena Abbott Shifters series. In Book Two, we get to know Heather McKenna. She was cursed by a witch, paid by her mother, so she couldn’t shift. Heather was told her whole life that being a shifter was abnormal and made her a monster. She was made to feel ashamed and unworthy. She didn’t find acceptance with her human family or with other wolf shifters when she finally left to forge her own path in the world. Her pack put her at the very bottom of the hierarchy and treated her poorly because what good is a wolf shifter who can’t shift? When this book starts, we learn that Wren, her new Alpha, has helped her release her wolf from the curse. Heather is having a difficult time accepting herself and finding peace with her wolf. She receives a call from her sister informing her that their mother is in the hospital and she needs to come. Their parting wasn’t on good terms. Heather hopes to find closure with her mom and sister and decides to go, despite Wren’s objections. V is a member of the Raines pack and also the child of the pack Alpha. Just like in the first book, we discover that this pack is governed by a strict hierarchy of dominance and submission. The Alpha’s word is law. V and their father do not see eye to eye. V’s non-binary identity and attraction to women are not respected by their father, who insists that they mate with Sinclair, the pack enforcer. As one might expect, Sinclair is terrible, and V wants nothing to do with him. V and Heather meet when V is called to the hospital to handle a potential rogue wolf, who turns out to be Heather. She is struggling to control her emotions and her wolf during the full moon. V immediately recognizes that Heather is their true fated mate. However, it takes Heather, who is not as in tune with her alter ego, a bit longer to come around. I enjoyed the story, but I must admit that it dragged a bit for me because Heather’s self-esteem is extremely low. She believes she is unworthy of anyone’s love or respect. She thinks she is broken and burdensome. She takes responsibility for and apologizes for everything, most of which she is not responsible for. One of my least favorite tropes is one-sided decision-making, like when a character decides, “I am not worth all the trouble I am causing. They can do better than me. I am doing them a favor by leaving.” Then they leave without giving the other person in the relationship a chance to make any decisions for themselves. Heather’s negative self-talk persists for at least half the book. I found myself skimming through these internal monologues because my tolerance for them is low. The book picks up in the second half, and I enjoyed the action scenes and the ending. I love how Wren’s new pack is starting to fill up with like-minded wolves, and I look forward to the next installment in the series. Thank you Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for the ARC and the opportunity to leave a review.
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MellowMan
Chelsea, US
★★★★★ 5
Thanks Elena Great Sequel
Format: Kindle
Elena, you did a marvelous job with your writing and character development. It is obvious you put your heart and soul into the story. I look forward to reading more of your work. Please keep it going strong.
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Notsonewtothis
Whiting, US
★★★★★ 5
Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Romance
Format: Paperback
Really good second book in this series. This is the story about Heather whose a werewolf shifter who couldn't shift, but gets help from a witch and an alpha werewolf that brings out her wolf , but she goes rogue after shifting and runs. When Heather and V meet they know that they are each others mate, but there's problems from the beginning. There's a lot of violence, drama and angst in this story, so I would say buckle up for a wild ride.. I would definitely recommend this book and I look forward to what's next in this series from this author.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2023
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Sh H & Educator 550974
Alexandria, US
★★★★★ 4
4 Stars
Format: Paperback
This is a shifter romance that features a non-binary wolf whose father, an Alpha, is stuck in the old ways of running a pack. In comes Heather, featured within the previous installment of the series, who doubts herself and has self-hatred due to her strained relationship with her mother. There are werewolves, witches, dominants and submissives. It's a slow building romance at first and then full steam ahead. For those who are triggered by self-doubt, you may want to pass this up as well as those who hate the mention of the phrase mate or my mate. It is a good second installment of the series with enough open ended content to have a third book on the horizon.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023

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