Eversleep: The Beauty of Dark Silence

by Alexander Bentley

Pause for a just moment and consider these questions:

- What if you went to sleep one night and never woke up?
- What if you fainted and felt something in the space where you blacked out?
- What happens when the darkness gives you more peace than living?

There is a reason why Sleeping Beauty didn't want to wake up. Take a journey into the darkness, through the power of poetry, and discover the mystery that changed fairy tales forever.

EVERSLEEP is Alexander Bentley's debut poetry collection. A manuscript of poems originally submitted for consideration during the 2017 Walt Whitman Award competition. His words are now accompanied with visceral and thought-provoking illustrations.

Alexander's all-time favorite poet is Edgar Allan Poe, and that influence shows in the poetical work of Eversleep: The Beauty of Dark Silence. With a touch of modern-day romanticism, dark macabre overtones, and psychological power the book blends everything into a seamless page-turning story.

192 pages, Paperback

Published August 2, 2017

About the author

Alexander Bentley is a wordsmith, inkslinger, poet. He commonly signs his poem images with a. bentley.

Alexander started posting his poems online in 2014, first on Tumblr and then shifted to Instagram when he discovered typed quotes from R.M. Drake. Alexander now ranks as one of the top poets on Facebook, alongside Rupi Kaur, Lang Leav, Pierre Alex Jeanty, and the poet who inspired him to post on social media in the first place.

Since that time, Alexander has published 4 books, including The Raven Redux & Other Poems, Eversleep: The Beauty of Dark Silence, and A Poet's Manifesto.

Alexander's body of work touches most commonly on themes of death and loss, depression and heartbreak, life and hope, but most importantly: love.

Since he started dating his Filipina girlfriend Jesa in 2019, Alexander has been very vocal about their relationship on social media. Which has helped him find new audiences for his poetry while encouraging people from different cultures and all walks of life to embrace the love inside their hearts.