Newly Abridged Happiness Manual, Vol II

Newly Abridged Happiness Manual, Vol II is a conceptual poem by award-winning poet Ana María Caballero that explores the tension between time and mind, between what we tell ourselves and what our thoughts tell us. Our emotional states are underpinned by the unspoken words that traverse our minds as thought. To examine these words is to examine the intimate scaffolding that sustains our outward-facing selves. This poem does so with humor, compassion, and straightforward honesty, highlighting both the mundane and contradictory nature of thought. Consisting of twenty-four short verses, this work explores the evolution–or lack thereof–of thought along the vast axis of time. Sloganeering statem...View all