Life Force

"Life Force: On the Move," a collection of poems by Saul Courrier, takes us from light to darkness and to light again, conveying the author's changing mood and varying state of mind. Some poems are tough and rebellious in both their theme and form, while others are soft, nostalgic, or romantic. Courrier's poems are less about rhymes and standard structure and more about startling phonetic and semantic plays, as if he wanted to take us in one direction just to tell us that that was not where we should have gone. The variety of styles and emotions takes the reader on a rollercoaster of feelings and triggers multiple reflections. Written between 2011 and 2016, a period of great upheaval in the author's life, the poems carry messages of hope, inviting the reader to embrace life and move forward.