Slices of Life Experience

If you have ever felt too much and said too little, start here.

Slices of Life Experience is the easiest way into the work, and a greatest hits for anyone already inside it. It is a mosaic: 42 poems Shaun J Apple pulled from across his catalog, the ones that would not let him leave them out.

Here in one place are the raw nerve of SWAY, the neon bruise of Life Experience Too, the orbital wandering of A Double Star System, the loud appetite of NGL, and the quiet tide of Even When. Trauma, love, loneliness, humor, and the plain stubborn act of staying alive, sequenced to read straight through or to open at random.

Life happens. Suddenly. Quickly. All at once. Then not at all.

Every poem here earned its place by refusing to be cut. It is the ideal first book from a poet who has spent 25 years and roughly 100 countries learning to say exactly what he means.

It works like a mixtape a friend made you: no filler, every track chosen because it does something to the person who hears it.

For readers new to Shaun J Apple who want the best in one volume, and longtime readers who want the greatest hits.

If you take one book off this shelf first, take this one. Then you will want the rest.