Delivering a variety of individual experiences and emotions from both the imagination and from personal accounts, "The Reception" is a poetry collection that guides you through the instinctual, logical, and moral senses of reality.

Poet Allyse Begin explores how we receive initial ideas or emotions and then translate them into a response or reaction. Through haunting, sometimes stark imagery, Begin shows how we develop biased and unbiased perceptions of our surroundings based on our own interpretations. Certain poems concentrate on the illogical aspects of life while others take a...