We're All Stories In the End - Large-Print Edition

Chris Dean's brilliant second book of poetry focuses on the stories that make each of us who we are, the stories that connect us.

A Debt of Words

I don't want anything from poetry,

I want to give back to it.

I want to speak balms

and antidotes

that comfort and heal,

sing connections

and write repairs

so we all feel less alone,

blaze paths

and clear overgrowth

so others can find their way.

I don't want anything from poetry.

I'd rather write to repay

the debt of words I owe

to those who have done

the same for me.

"Miracles, prayers answered. Poems from the creative forces of the universe channeled

through the pages of WE'RE ALL STORIES in THE END. Chris Dean's poems are diamonds.

Chris Dean is a new voice to be reckoned with. WE'RE ALL STORIES in THE END is a masterpiece."

Ron Whitehead, U.S. National Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate

"Chris Dean is a poet of exceptional ability. The way she catches images and works them toward the reader's mind and heart is simply amazing. Just consider her new work, WE'RE ALL STORIES IN THE END. She is a force to be reckoned with and I predict you will see more and more of her work. Get ready, America, there is a new poet on the block and she is about to wake and shake you dearly."

Lee Pennington, a Kentucky Poet Laureate