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In a time when poetry is reduced to captions and hashtags, Love, Lust & Despair dares to reintroduce it as a full, sensory world - one with teeth, skin, sex, and fire. This is not merely a collection of verse. It's a journey through a universe built from the ruins and promises of modern life - a vision forged in the metallic heartbeat of global cities, illuminated by desire and haunted by loneliness. The 100 poems in this book don't describe the world - they summon it. Drawing inspiration from the melancholy irony of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the brutal sensuality of Charles Bukowski, and the surreal lyricism of Federico García Lorca, this work erupts into a voice wholly its own - cosmopolitan, multilingual, and genre-defying. Each poem is a portal: a blood-soaked love song humming from a tangle of wires and vines. Visually and emotionally rooted in the impossible geometries of M.C. Escher, the grotesque elegance of Hieronymus Bosch, the mythic drama of Gustave Doré, and the biomechanical terror of H.R. Giger, this book is both ancient and futuristic. It aches for the garden while sinking into the factory. Its characters - cyborgs, sex workers, robots, poets, insects, lovers, and ghosts - move through neon jungles and Escherian labyrinths. Bodies are fragmented, worshipped, mechanized, consumed. Orchids open like wounds. Mangoes rot like memory. Factories hum like hives. Recurring themes: megacities, slums, brutalist towers, the erotic as resistance, the sacred hidden in decay, and the desperate, radiant need to connect - to love, to ache, to belong. Love, Lust & Despair does not treat despair as a void - but as an invitation. In a world obsessed with artificiality and fragmentation, it argues that the erotic remains - a burning thread of the real, a sacred defiance of erasure. This book is not just to be read. It is a city to be entered, wandered, feared, and desired.

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