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Dream Receipts - Poetry

Dream Receipts is a poetry travelogue of hallucinated journeys to Japan from author Mark Apel. Dream Receipts explore themes of escapism, depression, faith, shadows, daylight, night terrors, daydreaming, and the surreal beauty of an imagined Japan.

"I have never been to Japan, but I thought it would be an interesting exercise to imagine I had been, or that I was currently there, or, to take it one step further, that I could go there somewhat metaphysically, whenever I chose." -Mark Apel

An illusory, dreamlike, fantastically ordinary, heartfelt trip into a world built of words.

Holy Wild Days - Poetry

Sometimes it takes a poem to do it justice. In Holy Wild Days, poet Mark Apel explores the idea that first-hand experiences can’t be shared or replicated—they can only be re-interpreted and re-imagined. Through his down-to-earth and accessible poetic voice, he explores childhood memories, predicts the future, and the little things that build the landscape of our lives.

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