Please Let Me Be Seen

Selected poems in two movements, Seen and Unseen. A book about being witnessed as the seeing goes.

Please Let Me Be Seen is the curated best of Shaun J Apple: 22 poems in two movements, Seen and Unseen, drawn from the strongest work and arranged into a single arc about visibility, love, and the ache to be truly looked at.

The book was designed to enact partial vision loss. A gold aperture recurs like an eye. Figures step out of dark into light. The poems hold their focus even as the field around them softens, so the form itself carries the meaning. Reading it feels like watching someone insist on being seen while the seeing gets harder.

The sadness of leaving. The sadness of everything. The fresh air of breathing.

It was made by a poet living with inherited retinal disease and the surgeries that took part of his sight, and every poem is kept exactly as composed. It is the collection to give someone who wants the essential Shaun J Apple in one beautiful volume.

It is the volume built as a gift, the one to give when you want to hand someone the whole of a voice in twenty-two poems.

For readers of literary and confessional poetry who want the curated best of a voice, in a book built to keep and to give.

A book about being seen, made by someone losing his sight, and unwilling to disappear.