Synopsis:

Don’t Rub Salt in the Heartbreak by Heather Angelika Dooley is a treasure trove of poetry about letting go of constants and the growing pains of womanhood. This is a book about how true love can make even the wisest of people learning impaired when it comes to the heart. This is written artwork by a literary artist who is lovesick about music, nature, parenthood, philosophy, psychology, and her soul mate who rubbed salt in her heartbreak. Heather Angelika Dooley plays with words like a Magnus—she casts a spell on you through her spellbinding way of spelling out your deepest cognitions. This book is a balladry of profoundness, pansophy, and yet utter unmasking of the soul. This poet gives all new meaning to: Wordsmith. You’ll believe her. You’ll feel her. You’ll fall in love with her command of language and sovereignty of symbolic skill. Beyond strength, this masterful metrical composition is true and the poet is a spirit of spirit.

Heather Angelika Dooley’s poetry is romantically raw, skinned, stripped, and even sanguinary at times. Yet, at the very same time, it is sweet-tempered, silver-toned in simile and metaphor, not to mention all-powerfully identifiable. This lyrical book will stir and impress you. It is dauntless and gutsy, all the while full of equally brave vulnerability and selfless confessions. There are so many open-handed tender spots within the body of this collection of work, as well as the author. Heather Angelika Dooley does not hold back for the sake of modesty, she humbly submits and admits her submissiveness to heartbreak. Within her lack of reserve reveals the grit and inner strength of true courage of heart. Just some of the things that Heather Angelika Dooley tries to resolve in Don’t Rub Salt in the Heartbreak are: toxic entanglements, the witch hunt for personal demons, a blind alley walked down by blinded love, the waking of hibernating dreams, the sublime saving grace of nature, and the foolhardiness of being a fool in love with a fool. No matter age, gender, race, or creed, realist, idealist, optimist, or pessimist, this book will grip you and stay with you in your heart and soul—love, heartbreak, and soul-searching are universal life inquisitions. The author, Heather Angelika Dooley, only asks that YOU, the reader, read this book with all of yours.