Overview

Tell Me How You Are offers unflinching insights into love and loss and the moments in between. It's a singular view of chance meetings that become something more, secrets shared too soon, the elusive intricacies of love and the almost irresistible compulsion to practice our goodbyes. Edward Pittman's book is a breathtaking personal view of adoration and ennui, presenting diverse worlds where Puritans and steely eyed Native Americans face off across a Thanksgiving feast, of journeys through speculative landscapes and innumerable paths not taken, of sleepwalking lovers who guilelessly pass one another in the dark, of faded gods who long ago lost touch with the world they knew, and much more - all hopelessly entangled in the strained, sometimes fraying, bonds of affection. Whether allegorical or starkly literal, Tell Me How You Are presents dizzying moments of euphoria, the emptiness of sudden heartbreak, and the ebb and flow of love that endures. Edward Pittman is a poet with a mature, studied voice, his insights keen, who is all too willing to explore where things went right, as well as wrong - and what stories, curated by the vagaries of the heart and the perspective of a lifetime, will be remembered.

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""This is one man's lifetime chronicle of feeling love and making love - although death and archaeology and stage magic and history make their appearances, too - and its fourteen sections each bear a name: the names of the beloved themselves. But it doesn't take long to see that Edward Pittman loves language as well, which is, after all, exactly the kind of love we hope to find in poems."" - Albert Goldbarth, two-time recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award ""Pittman, in the titular poem, writes movingly about the longing to forge connections by any means necessary ... The verse here is consistently visceral and evocative, and Pittman conveys longing in a familiar but elegant way."" - Kirkus Reviews ""Visual artist, screenwriter, author, and poet Pittman's debut collection is a multifaceted series of love letters, dreamscapes, and travels through time ... a sublime mosaic of grief, abundant with the love, memory, and dreams that give it shape."" - BookLife

Author Information

Edward Pittman is a lifelong writer. His poems and short stories have been published in the literary journals Analecta, Wellspring, Tilted Planet Tales, Sidewinder and Glissando!, the journal of the New Mexico State Poetry Society. To date, he's written four feature film screenplays and a 60-minute grounded sci-fi pilot for television. In addition to screenwriting, Pittman worked with charted Americana recording artist Arthur Godfrey to co-write the full-length Americana musical ""If I Only Knew Your Name."" His artwork on canvas has been exhibited in galleries in Dallas, Texas. Upcoming books include Create the Career You Want, a job search and career primer, and Dark Forest, a novel based on his horror feature script of the same name.Pittman lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Michelle, and their happy cat family. Follow his work through his Linktree page: linktr.ee/edwardpittman.

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