Brandon Flesher's debut book, Chasing Shadows, is a haunting collection of poetry that illuminates the shadows within us all. His poems read like confessions as he explores the fragile architecture of the human heart-its capacity for love, its vulnerability to loss, and its struggle toward self-acceptance.Chasing Shadows offers readers a mirror for their own struggles with examinations of self-deception and regret, and the slow process of healing after loss. Brandon Flesher was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Moline, Illinois. After receiving his paramedic license and working briefly as a paramedic, he moved from the hot and humid Gulf Coast of Alabama to the other extreme of the weather spectrum in Minnesota, where he currently lives with his dog. Brandon wasn't inspired to write poetry until arriving in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but his love of reading began at an early age with stories like King Arthur and His Knight of the Round Table as well as the plays of Shakespeare. He regards Goethe, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard to be among his biggest writing influences.
