Other Sellers on Amazon
& FREE Shipping
91% positive over last 12 months
+ $3.99 shipping
84% positive over last 12 months
Usually ships within 3 to 4 days.

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Learn more
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.


An Alterable Void Paperback – March 5, 2014
Enhance your purchase
- Print length180 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLulu.com
- Publication dateMarch 5, 2014
- Dimensions5.83 x 0.41 x 8.27 inches
- ISBN-101304901602
- ISBN-13978-1304901606
Product details
- Publisher : Lulu.com (March 5, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 180 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1304901602
- ISBN-13 : 978-1304901606
- Item Weight : 7.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.83 x 0.41 x 8.27 inches
- Customer Reviews:
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
Again I say it, she is that good. If one day I write a poem that has half her depth and sensibility I will be very proud indeed.
So when she announced she was publishing her first book of poetry – An Alterable Void - I was delighted and immediately purchased my copy. I have now received it and had the pleasure of reading it from cover to cover in one astonishing sitting and been admirably rewarded for this time by the sheer beauty, breadth and depth of her writing. And given this I couldn’t wait to pass on the word and do this review so that others can discover and be enriched by reading her wonderful work.
She divides her work in this book in three sections reflecting the theme of her blog – Mind, Love and Misery.
The Mind section is full of brutal, beautiful self-analysis and contemplation of thought. Asymmetry is exquisitely lovely, Contrast is a short burst of illuminating light. Freak Show provides an amazing insight to the fate of forgotten or abandoned writing, while Shaman shows us the poet as mystic.
In Translation she completely under-estimates the beauty of her writing – she shines a harsh and unforgiving light on her method and finds herself wanting in a manner her readers never will.
The Love section is very much a world Rimbaud would recognise and enjoy – a deliciously dark and sensuous collection of work that brings to mind his quest for the derangement of the senses. All the poems are beautiful, but I’d make special mention of Alone – a keen insight to the changing aspects of love – Birdsong for its musical profundity, Frozen and also Molting for simplicity that will break your heart, and the darkly sensual and trippy cadence of Moon Sick and Peyote Angel.
In the Misery section dwell the ghosts of Plath and Poe, highlighted by Yves’ total unique voice which is powerful and wholly her own despite any comparisons I make. Poems like Beggar, Cemetery Heart and Cyanide Butterfly are beautiful and sepulchral. They also expose her inner self with excoriating honesty. Disgraced could be a song that Lucifer might sing, and in Incarnate and in Paper Heart we are again introduced to the poet as mystic.
All in all this collection is superb, just as I anticipated it would be. I hope Yves draws the very wide acclaim she richly deserves. Her writing will make you feel and think deeply, and transport you to a world that is at once both familiar and alien. It is sublime.
I also want to note how wonderful the cover art is, done by the very talented Mirjana Miric Inalman. It perfectly complements this wonderful work with its own dark beauty and otherworldly grace, and displays an artist with similar sensibilities, skill and depth to the poet.
Buy this book if you love great poetry and would like to have a first edition for one of the great poets of our age!
Her first book, An Alterable Void is a deeply moving exploration of the roots of human behavior. This collection of Poetry is divided into three sections: Love, Mind and Misery to reflect the themes of her blog. Rest assured she depicts love, sensuality, self-doubt and discovery as masterfully as she paints a chilling Portrait of Evil.
Yves’s style is relentlessly intense and honest. Her writing has teeth that cut into you and hang on. You will be altered.
Some Favorite Poems:
Freak Show
Human Currency
Autopsy
Cyanide Butterfly
Whiskey & Nylon
Listen
Portrait of Evil
Coppermouth