Deadly Grievances

Author and Publisher: Kristian Zenz (2021)

Kristian Zenz presents a chapbook of fourteen poems exploring our world of emotion—love, hate, angst, happiness, fear, and more. He dives into the deepest of trenches to uncover how the holiday season tends to perhaps enhance, or perhaps suffocate our expression of how we really feel.

The chapbook paints a compelling picture, featuring the writer's dive into social issues, the commercialization of tradition, as well as personal reflection regarding his relationships, inhibitions and character. The book covers each of the seven deadly sins, and then moves on to the five stages of grief, capped off with two poems regarding repentance, making for a compelling journey meant to be read front to back.