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""Despite living in a world where social narratives shepherd us through life, we remain unresolved about one key facet of human experience: our mortality... "" 'A Botany of Desire' features discursive analysis on the human experience of mortality, followed by a suite of soulful poetry that attempts to evoke readers' spiritual reconciliation with death. The poetry of this book pattern themselves with Romantic imagery, evocative rhythm, and unexpected precision of insight. The thematic focus on mortality is reified into the four seasons of the Earth, borrowing the cyclicality and regenerative potential of nature to delineate a journey of maturation within our own humanity. Following this quadripartite schema, the poems in 'Spring' are charged with a naive indifference toward mortality, whereas fears of death are exacerbated in 'Autumn', subsequently corrupting the poetry within the autumnal scene. 'Winter', then, is the cathartic denouement where these dual attitudes negotiate an equilibrium. R.X. Bruny is an aspiring Australian poet who, having utterly succumbed to the poetic form, honours the purity of poetry by attempting to convey complex, often unspoken ideas with no show of contrivance. 'A Botany of Desire' (2025) is R.X. Bruny's literary debut. ""May your fears of death be divorced from you just as autumn leaves fade away in wintertime.""

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