Versus Verses

"Versus Verses" is a collection of 194 one-page prose poems grouped under 9 topics (e.g., Relationships, Communicating, Spirituality) designed to stimulate your thinking, touch your heart, and improve your life.

"Versus Verses" is a collection of 194 one-page proems. A proem is a prose-poem that uses poetic devices to deliver a message that is not lyrical, but didactic. :Versus" refers to the opposition, contrast, or difference between 2 real-life experiences (e.g., love--romance, believing--beliefs). Some of them appear identical, but should be distinguished. The style is concise and the effect is epigrammatic, rendering many of the statements easily quotable. They are grouped under 9 categories (e.g., Relationships, Communicating, Spirituality) designed to stimulate your thinking, touch your heart, and improve your life.

Born and raised in the Bronx, NYC,USA, Fr. Walter Niebrzydowski is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, After serving as a high school teacher and then as pastor of 2 parishes, he has retired from administration to devote himself full-time to the media apostolate. He runs a website. a YouTube channel, and a weekly cable show. The eBook Versus Verses is his latest contribution to communicating positive values via the digital domain.