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"Sagittae Angelorum, """"arrows of angels,"""" offers a collection of literary works in poetry, short stories, and drama by four innovative authors--Jeremy Joosten, Joelle Joosten, Dominic Nootebos, and Lucas Smith. Jeremy Joosten engages his readers by creating narratives with animal and nature metaphors. The reader/listener cannot escape his call to existential reflection on life and relationships. He achieves personal self-examination in his one-act play, Kintsugi. Joelle Joosten explores spatial form and structure as part of metaphor in her poetry. In her short story Turbulence, she draws us into the powerful emotions of love and betrayal; and in her historical fiction on Ludwig van Beethoven, the intensity of music reinforces Beethoven's interior tension. When it comes to love, Dominic Nootebos confronts his audience with the rawness of love and death in both his provocative poetry and his gothic love story, Lost Love of the Haunted and Hollow. Lucas Smith offers us poems where he explores space, syntax, and images leading his reader to a spiritual ascent. In the drama genre, he constructs his play based on the life of Pier Giorgio Frassati. He ends this collection bringing his readers to Mars, then back to Earth, in his sci-fi piece with a spiritual twist."

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"""Sagittae Angelorum, a collection of poetry and short stories by four fresh voices, uses a purposeful, contemporary approach to explore the healing power of faith and spirituality in a world that often denies or derides it. The writing is agile, sometimes playful, and never preachy, infused with a genuine sense of hope and the belief in the desire for salvation that the human soul harbors."" --Anna Foschi Ciampolini, co-founder, Association of Italian-Canadian Writers ""Sagittae Angelorum takes us through personal journeys in poetry, short stories, and drama, where each author creates a world that becomes our own. These 'arrows'--sagittae--hit their mark."" --Lara Paniagua, education consultant child psychologist ""The selections of poetry and prose in Sagittae Angelorum reflect, like a kaleidoscope, myriad images of human emotions: love and loss, fear and hope, desperation and acceptance, and regret and reawakened spirituality. With its allegorical tone, this creative and thought-provoking collection in turn surprises, intrigues, amuses, and inspires. A compelling read!"" --Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli, award-winning author of La Brigantessa"

"""Sagittae Angelorum, a collection of poetry and short stories by four fresh voices, uses a purposeful, contemporary approach to explore the healing power of faith and spirituality in a world that often denies or derides it. The writing is agile, sometimes playful, and never preachy, infused with a genuine sense of hope and the belief in the desire for salvation that the human soul harbors."" --Anna Foschi Ciampolini, co-founder, Association of Italian-Canadian Writers ""Sagittae Angelorum takes us through personal journeys in poetry, short stories, and drama, where each author creates a world that becomes our own. These 'arrows'--sagittae--hit their mark."" --Lara Paniagua, education consultant child psychologist ""The selections of poetry and prose in Sagittae Angelorum reflect, like a kaleidoscope, myriad images of human emotions: love and loss, fear and hope, desperation and acceptance, and regret and reawakened spirituality. With its allegorical tone, this creative and thought-provoking collection in turn surprises, intrigues, amuses, and inspires. A compelling read!"" --Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli, award-winning author of La Brigantessa"

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David C. Bellusci is the author of eight books, including four books of poetry. He holds a BA in English literature, an MA in linguistics, an MFA in creative writing, and PhD in philosophy. He is a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and teaches at Catholic Pacific College, British Columbia.

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