A Field Guide to Human Emotions

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>There's a field guide for everything in the natural world. Why not for human emotions?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Now there is. In </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A Field Guide to Human Emotions</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> poet and fiction writer Mimi Herman offers readers a handy alphabetized guide to their daily emotions. Fusing figurative language and wit she offers definitions for everything from Anxiety to the classic Trigger Mechanism stopping along the way for Hope Longing and Passion. This collection will inspire you to say That's exactly how I felt but I never knew how to say it. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>From Anxiety which sets its watch ahead/by at least a minute though often weeks to Condescension which loves an echo to Need which offers to burrow into the milliseconds/you leave behind these poems allow you to understand emotional states at the exact moment you find yourself re-experiencing them.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A Field Guide Human Emotions</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> you'll find both understanding and self-help. Each page offers a shortcut to that Aha! moment we're all trying to find. Herman's passion for personification and her ear for the delights of language make her poetry accessible rather than an exclusive clubhouse that requires a secret password to be admitted. Open the door come on in and discover who we are and why we do what we do.</span></p><p><br></p>