Contemporary poetry relating to the humor, pain, and life of every day people.

The fourth book of modern poetry from the author of Easy Battles For Lazy Armies, After The Fist Shot, and 4th & Hill Is Gone Forever. The author uses different stlyes of poetry to find the humor, truth, and reality in everyday life.

The fifth book of poetry by Robert Benefiel, The Sound Of Typing, is filled with poems culled from more recent pieces all written in 2011. These poems reflect on fatherhood, work, memories, marriage, politics, and all the pains of growing older as well as its joys. Whether it's being disenfranchised with American ideologies or accepting more universal principles such as love over religion, the book continues to show the changing approaches of the author's voice as well as his constant sound.

A book written with the intent to capture a feeling of being both lost and found, most of the poems in this volume reflect on human interaction. Whether it be in public, with a new lover, or within ones self, throughout the book most of the poems are trying to tell the story of how people both seem to be honest and yet completely reserved simultaneously. Considered to be a part of a trilogy of poetry books that were written during a huge change in the authors life, this book tends to define the middle of that change, fluctuating from positive sentiments of ones own character and world, to the...