Lamentations: Collected Works Of Poetry & Lyrics [LIMITED QTYS]

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Spanning the haunted decades between 1999 and 2019, this elegiac compendium of brooding verse opens like a procession of shuttered doors—each a passage into fevered dreamscapes and the brutal architecture of human ache. Within these pages, verses flow like a funeral procession, exhumed, and drawn from the marrow of memory to construct psalms of decay, longing, and incandescent despair.

A. R. Marquez composes in a style both untethered and ritualistic—free verse that bleeds into liturgy, lyricism that cracks under the weight confession. His voice, ardent and unflinching, dredges the subconscious with the obsessive elegance of the Decadents, echoing the stigmata-laced sensuality of Baudelaire, the searing Confessionalism of Plath. Yet beneath the antique silks, one hears the serrated thrum of modern elegy—sonic echoes of Glassjaw, Katatonia, and Deafheaven—bands who sing like wounded archangels in a world set aflame.

Threaded throughout the book are photographs by actress, writer, and photographer Lori Cardille—daughter of Pittsburgh’s beloved “Chilly Billy” Cardille and immortalized in the late-great George A. Romero’s 1985 cult masterpiece Day of the Dead. Her lens, like Marquez’s pen, captures the revenants of emotion—grief, lust, decay—preserved in frames of quiet dread and baroque tenderness.

More than just a book. It is a reliquary. A cathedral of bruised spirits. A lament written in blood, ash, and light.

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