Stranded Hearts: An Anthology of Love Poetry

For those who have loved deeply, longed silently, and carried beauty through heartbreak.

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"The poet Gesso Cocteau reveals secrets, uncovers darkness, skims surfaces and sees the world as if it were in the first dawn of creation."

Stranded Hearts is a collection of poems that lives at the edge of things - where the familiar becomes strange, where the enchanted becomes home. Gesso Cocteau writes not as an observer of love, but as one who has been undone by it, rebuilt by it, and undone again. These are poems that know the difference between longing and desire, between solitude and loneliness, between what we say and what we mean.

Inside Stranded Hearts

These poems move through love, storm, communion, seduction, fate, pain, and the private afterlife of desire. They are for readers drawn to poetry that keeps beauty alive after the heart has been changed by love.

From the book

"The fates opened our hearts and stained us with fire, when finally they pulled us apart the ashes of poetry remained."

In Gesso's own words, "This book is for everyone who has fallen in love with their muse."

To read Stranded Hearts is to feel recognized in your most private moments - as if someone finally found the words you had been reaching for all along.