Dark Water, Sweet Fire

The book is divided into two parts, discussing polar ideas like loneliness and connection, heartache and heart-healing, sorrow and joy in a yin-yang manner. Both chapters further explore and show how these intense feelings are closely related, helping the reader heal and question their own relationship with their feelings that are unbalanced. Everything, including the universe, is about balance. So, we must be able to freely explore the heaviest, ugliest feelings within ourselves to find balance and therefore, the key to our happiness.

The book is divided into two parts, discussing polar ideas like loneliness and connection, heartache and heart-healing, sorrow and joy in a yin-yang manner. Both chapters further explore and show how these intense feelings are closely related, helping the reader heal and question their own relationship with their feelings that are unbalanced. Everything, including the universe, is about balance. So, we must be able to freely explore the heaviest, ugliest feelings within ourselves to find balance and therefore, the key to our happiness.

Born and bred in Koreatown, Los Angeles, Joseph Escobar is a writer that studied classic poetry and majored in English at UCLA. He is also known as Joethepoet online. Raised by his strong, Guatemalan grandmother, who he calls mama, she was the person that stoked his fire for literature and writing. He learned at a very young age how beautiful and cathartic it is to write his feelings down, whether joyful or sorrowful. Out of all of this, came his first poetry book, "Dark Water, Sweet Fire," a collection of poems exploring the dichotomies and relationships between light and darkness, love and loss, healing and pain. A proud Angeleno, he feels most at home in Los Angeles, walking around Echo Park with his grandmother, reading and writing in local bookstores or cafes, spending quality time with his family, and hanging out with good friends wherever the wind takes them.