SECRETS Award-Winning Poetry, Scripts and Songs

Secrets are the quiet engines of human feeling. They live in the pauses between words, in melodies unfinished, in lines spoken too late or never at all. In this collection, award-winning writers from around the world give voice to what is most often kept hidden. These poems, scripts, and songs move through the private territories of love and loss, unrequited longing and childhood crushes, the scars of war, the strangeness of journeys, and the intimacies of old age. Strangers pass through these pages carrying histories they cannot fully share; lovers speak in codes; memory itself becomes a kind of confession. What unites these works is an understanding that secrets do not disappear with time. They age with us. They travel. They sing. This book listens closely to what is whispered beneath language, and in doing so, reveals how deeply secrecy binds us-to one another, and to ourselves.