Vezuff Books
Return to Self
Poetry on rupture and repair. A contemplative collection that moves through fracture, tenderness, and the quiet work of becoming whole again.
Book Overview
A book of inward return
Return to Self traces what happens after rupture: the pause, the listening, the slow reassembly of an inner life. These poems stay close to grief, beauty, memory, and the natural world, offering language for moments that resist easy explanation.
Written in an elegant, reflective voice, the collection invites readers into a quieter kind of attention. It does not rush toward certainty. Instead, it honors tenderness, fracture, and renewal as part of a living spiritual and human practice.
Themes
What the book holds
Three recurring movements shape the collection, guiding the reader from inner stillness through fracture and toward a more spacious sense of self.
Presence
Poems attentive to silence, breath, seasons, and the subtle textures of being alive.
Rupture
Writing that stays with loss, disorientation, and the breaking open that can alter a life.
Repair
A tender return toward wholeness, where language becomes a companion to renewal.
