In Vilynprakah, Nadirah Alford taps into some of the most painful moments of human experience and contrasts them with deep longings for love, hopes, dreams, and high expectations. She leads us on a quest for balance and satisfaction, while providing us with courage and strength. Alford beautifully illustrates how the delicate human spirit can survive traumatic events and become more resilient. Poetry flows directly from the author's heart. Alford's emotions and thoughts pour forth in a passionate manner, as in her poem "Eight Pieces" Eight Pieces Just some girl who looks like her mother But cannot live without her cover Pieces that has been broken needs to come back together Like glass or a crossword puzzle Something full of mass Life been tough, too much aggravation and no satisfaction Attitudes flying and angers rising Forced apart a puzzle of eight Pieces scattered, I cannot live without them My eight piece puzzle Each piece is important to the other But now they are separated Years trying to set the pieces back together The puzzle is like a life force with each piece missing it's weaken It's tearing down flesh It's tearing down blood It's separating strength Causing tears of flood | Vilynprakah by Nadirah Alford, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters