Paul Hina: 14 books

Of Wanting and Rain is a collection of over one hundred and sixty love poems spanning three years of work by poet Paul Hina. In his follow-up to 2007's Such Deliberate Loveliness, Hina continues to explore the richness of man's desire using playful imagery and unique, impressionistic language.

Origami Moonlight is Paul Hina's third installment in his continuing Collected Poems series. In this follow-up to Such Deliberate Loveliness (2007) and Of Wanting and Rain(2011), Hina uses his unique, whimsical language to create an impressionistic, labyrinthine landscape of man's desire.

Music Only We Know is Paul Hina's fourth installment in his continuing Collected Love Poems series. In his follow-up to 2015's Origami Moonlight, Hina uses his unique, impressionistic voice to take the reader on his journey to harness the whimsy, joy and frustration of man's desire.

Such Deliberate Loveliness is a collection of love poems spanning 10 years. The collection contains poems of loss, of wanting, of falling in love, and of staying in love.

After Brett Lattimore, a hot baseball prospect, and his wife are killed in a car crash, an attorney hires investigator Clay Hart to look into the accident. The attorney believes he's seen Brett's wife, Emma, alive and well, since the accident. And, though she may be missing, that doesn't mean she's...

Annie and Eric are hosting a dinner party. Annie is edgy, having spent days obsessing over the fact that her old lover, Max, is in town for the holidays. And when Eric tells her he's invited Max, who's also Eric's brother, Annie is mortified. It's been years since she's seen Max, and their relationship...

Happiness is elusive. It can be a fleeting feeling that we never quite catch, and oftentimes it is because we can't quite identify its meaning. Some of us will do almost anything to achieve a taste of happiness. Some of us rely on our old memories to give our present life a happier gleam. What if...

In the title story of The Lavender Haze: Three Stories of Flirting with an Affair, Micheal comes home to find Kelly, his wife's best friend, has come for a visit. Through the evening, we learn that he and Kelly had a brief affair before the wedding that, to Michael's surprise, still lingers. In our...

M wakes up in a field with no signs of life around him. He has no memory of where he is or who he is, and there are no clues in sight. By experiencing his memories— uncovered a little at a time—he starts to make sense of his life. Visitors from his past, including a mystery woman in a dress made...

In The Other Shore, Simon's life isn't what he hoped it would be. And when he learns that his father is dying, he returns to his hometown for goodbyes. Though he has been estranged from his father since his mother's untimely death six years ago, Simon rediscovers the power of parental influence. This...

In the Satchel, On the Train, Selling Dreams to Nancy revolves around three characters who become entangled in Dreams Inc., a company that sells patients a theatrical reenactment of their dreams under the guise of psychological self- discovery.

On the night that Sam receives his token for three months of sobriety, he meets Jessi. The past several months have been lonely months for Sam, and he's happy to have some hope in his life. But, since Jessi is new to AA, their friendship has to strike a delicate balance. She wants Sam to help guide...

What happens when a professor has fallen in love with a colleague's wife? What about when a pushy New Yorker falls in love with an emotionally wounded former ballerina in her forties? What about when two strangers meet at a hotel bar during a convention, fall instantly in love, but are promised to other people?

After the death of a colleague, aging poet Jacob Schorr begins to worry about his recent struggles to write. He had long since lost the inspiration that made his first book, Imeros, a success. This early success was driven by the desire to recapture his love for Melissa--his college fiancee. Now,...