Wanting & Bearing: A Book of Poetry & Visual Art

In Wanting & Bearing, the poet Mystikal Blue Casares uses both language and visual art to give shape to those things that have shaped him - from his deepest desires to his heaviest heartaches. These earnest poems move over their pages a few lines at a time, guiding the reader slowly and deliberately along on a personal journey from lost to found. Each illustration, whether black-and-white line drawing or fleshed out in full color, appears like a beacon to light the path. "I'll illuminate and I will be as blue as the sky," the poet says. And when he does, he reaches out a loving hand to pull the rest of us up and brighten our way.