Robin Xavier Fontaine: 12 books

Book cover of Gonna Gotta Let My Hair Down
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013

Some say, "Gonna gotta let my heir down." I say, "Gonna gotta let my hair down." Where some see nothing but destruction, and in so doing contribute to the destruction, one can also see opportunities for creation. In this river of life, if we are to make our way, we have...
Book cover of Diamonds From The Void
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013

These seventeen carefully chosen poems are divided into three chapters. By turns sweet, sexy, pointed and provocative, I strive at all times to be both entertaining and tasteful. The major threads (that I can see) are romantic love, ill-fated and wise choices, finding a voice in the world, nature,...
Book cover of Horizons Around Us
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

I hope that words alone are enough to convey what it is I have discovered about the illusions of living - most pertinently, the illusion of freedom. The goal is to reach out to our horizons and live in ways as true as possible to our nature. Those that block us from the horizons are the despots of...
Book cover of A Great Notion, This Love Is
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

In 219 words, I try to express the new world that a first deep and true love brings to us. I'm no spring chicken, but late in my life, I find that I've been blessed with the most remarkable of people, dropped at my very threshold. I hope these words shed light on the experience I've been having and...
Book cover of Closets
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014

The greater part of ourselves remains hidden away, as time ticks down on freedom. What we have seen them wreak before, here and elsewhere, will be visited upon us. Three poems, 520 words.
Book cover of Spectacles Of Love
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013

Six idea-poems in all, in free verse; each idea-poem uses a motif familiar to everyone. The poems are: The Vase, The Whirling Wind, The Pyrrhic Victory, The Eccentric, The Television Set, and The End Of Time. From these motifs I jump off at various tangents to explore the meanings of my latest,...
Book cover of Passion's Energies
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013

Taking a tour through life in eleven vignettes, I try to show the reader what it is I see that makes our lives so precious - it is the subjective experience of being, knowable only to each individual. We can appreciate and cherish the value of human life if we reflect on what each of those lives is...
Book cover of I Had Always Been So
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

Michelle knew in middle school that she was a lesbian, but it wasn't until today that she finally lives with the companion of her heart's choice. Beginning in the first year of her marriage in the 1970's - a marriage contrived by her for the sake of having a child - Michelle goes from life within...
Book cover of Cosmogony's Riddle
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013

In three essays I take a journey from the light, through the darkness, and back into the light. Along the way I jump over meaningful(?) coincidences, human and humanity's mortality, evolution and devolution, imminent extinction, Fundamentalism and fatalism, the randomness of phenomena, a fine old...
Book cover of The Thinking Human's Etymologies
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Modern linguists have got word origins all figured out - or have they? There are scores of etymologies I would dispute, and I've selected what I believe are the fifty most compelling alternative etymologies that I've come up with. My etymologies ring with the very truth - some reflect the darkness...
Book cover of Beyond Her Curtain
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013

Lonnie McPhee was the epitome of success in the early twenty-first century, as well as typifying what was so very wrong with humanity at that time. He came to know that he had been deluded earlier in his life when he discovered happiness and purpose, but did it all come about because of one final...
Book cover of Rated X For Excellence
by Robin Xavier Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013

The twelve pieces published by me thus far in 2013 are brought together under one cover, with the hope that the reader sees both variety and harmony in my approach to the short work. I chose the word excellence in the title of the anthology primarily because the writing is capable, the spirit is philanthropic,...
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