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More Than Less
More Than Less is a collection of 44 summer poems and prose by Etienne Lopa, illustrated with 65 iPhone photographs.
The concept for the book was crafted on a monthlong solitary road trip along the Mediterranean. It tells the story of an artist in the contemporary world escaping the chaos of the mainstream system and the expectations of the internet, and finding an infinite source of peace on the road, in music, and by the sea. Just for a moment.
More Than Less explores themes of quick and frivolous summer encounters and of a voyage into the sun and the depths of oneself. It is the manifesto of a modern state of mind and a modern take on long term love, towards another and towards life.
The contents are raw, descriptive, intimate and perfectly imperfect. With the help of details that seem futile, yet are crucial to the ways in which the poems flirt with both reality and fantasy, the author's particular writing style transports the reader into utterly precise moments in the narrator's life.
In a work so complete and multidisciplinary, the rhymes start to become an accessory and nothing more than a cordiality: More Than Less is all at once a photo-novel, a travel diary, a poetry book and the simplest eye pleasing table book.
The concept for the book was crafted on a monthlong solitary road trip along the Mediterranean. It tells the story of an artist in the contemporary world escaping the chaos of the mainstream system and the expectations of the internet, and finding an infinite source of peace on the road, in music, and by the sea. Just for a moment.
More Than Less explores themes of quick and frivolous summer encounters and of a voyage into the sun and the depths of oneself. It is the manifesto of a modern state of mind and a modern take on long term love, towards another and towards life.
The contents are raw, descriptive, intimate and perfectly imperfect. With the help of details that seem futile, yet are crucial to the ways in which the poems flirt with both reality and fantasy, the author's particular writing style transports the reader into utterly precise moments in the narrator's life.
In a work so complete and multidisciplinary, the rhymes start to become an accessory and nothing more than a cordiality: More Than Less is all at once a photo-novel, a travel diary, a poetry book and the simplest eye pleasing table book.
94 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2022
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About the author
Etienne Lopa
2 booksPoet. Singer. And all the things in-between. Based in Paris. 2 books. 1 album.
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May 20, 2022
Inspirational!
November 26, 2022
This poetry book will make you think of the summer trips you had, or never had. You will follow along the poet’s road trip which will feel like a break from reality, an experience seemingly belonging to a different space and time. In fact, More Than Less will make you travel in the south of France without actually going there. Surrounded by nothing but the heat of the summer and the soft breeze of the beach, the poet brilliantly manages to describe the very intricate and mysterious thing that is desire for a newly-met person. This is a beautiful book that I cannot recommend enough.
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