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Chris Barraza
Poetry
collections & memoirs
A Silent Crescendo, 2018
A Silent Crescendo details what it feels like to be at a point where you are so high, and then crashing down, overwhelmed by a subtle, yet powerful, ocean of silent noise, growing louder and louder until it completely takes you over. The collection comprises of 80 poems and complementary pictures and drawings. The author intertwines nature with society and relationships.
The collection is highly structured and is governed by poetic rules; it is a gentle step into the author's understanding of poetry.
sunset on mars, 2021
sunset on mars examines themes of beauty and disconnect through 142 poems, spanning three years of the author's life, which coincide with the highs and lows of high school and preparing for college. The poems, which are told in a loose chronological order, tell of love, loss, and the most intense pain that is the disconnect of relativity.
sunset on mars is about growth; It's a loose memoir that tells a story of falling in love, both with myself and those around me. It's isolating and touchstarved... like two planets orbiting each other, scared that their collision will destroy them both, when really it's what creates an energy neither had ever felt before.
Bleeding Heart Forever, 2021
Written in about a three month period, Bleeding Heart Forever is about transitions -- both accepted and forced. "I was at a point where I was facing down a path that required me to give up almost everything I had built and seen shine in my life; I was scared and afraid of the change, and it felt like everything I had done in the previous years was for nothing."
This collection is a memoir of a period that felt like eternity. Dread and hopelessness were everyday occurrences. Yet, it's also a story about how no matter the hurt, my heart will always bleed, spilling out on anyone it can find.
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