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“Life From the Perspective of Math effortlessly blends genre and discipline, capturing the highs and lows of being in love with someone unattainable. Preneta addresses the complexities of a doomed relationship in a voice at once accessible and unique, combining narratives of interpersonal relationships with themes of mental health in an unusual and innovative form. These poems bear witness to sorrow, but are still filled with a grounded, resilient hope. Above all, Life From the Perspective of Math is a celebration of the beauty of being in love: with ourselves, with other people, and with the world at large.”

— Leela Raj-Sankar

“Grit. Teeth-biting. Brave. Audacious. Halle is one poet to look out for.”

— Flourish Joshua, author of the Inhaling of Odes

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This chapbook consists of visual poetry inspired by various graphs taught to me throughout my high school career, mainly pulling inspiration from my honors statistics course my senior year of high school.

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"Halle Preneta's portraits fuse the person that was with the person that we see them as, into something that blends fiction and reality, love shaping both us and them into someone new. Preneta seeks to stave off the ending, but THE EVENT HORIZON reminds us that for those we have loved there can never be a true end, even if sometimes we desire oblivion"

— Sarah Malini, Poet, Author of 'Decennium'

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Inspired by poems written while studying abroad last semester, this book discovers what it means to live. To create a universe for oneself in a new place. The way we form relationships and view the world around us when we're thrown into places we've never been to before. It examines the next step in life after high school, college and the waiting world ahead of us and what it means to make lives for ourselves as independent people. But, most importantly, this book reminds us to live through everything, good and bad.

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"an extremely interesting juxtaposition of a unique love story. Halle has a deeply emotional style that takes you on an expert ski trail, swooping and dodging deeply rooted trees. The <3 wants, what the <3 wants always. Mesmerizing read beginning to end."

— Thasia Anne – Still Standing

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Ever wonder what being in love feels like? That ever growing weight in your chest that you can't get rid of but you know it isn't bad. The smiles you get when you think of them, bright and full of happiness. The superhero-like feelings you get when you're around them, like you can do anything as long as they're around. That you can be your true self as long as they're there alongside you.

This book explores all of those emotions and more. The feelings-you-can't-quite-describe emotions and feelings-you-think-you're-forbidden-to-feel emotions. Get ready to dive into the feelings you feel like you can't touch. Your crushes that only one other person in your life knows about. Your forbidden thoughts and actions and words. Explore love and sexuality as one entity instead of two separate existences. Get ready to love and feel and live. As a wise person once told me "Never be afraid to do what you have to do in this life."

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