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E.D. Small is an Award-winning Author who recently won a silver medal in the Reader’s Favorite International Book Award Contest. This American poet has an endless passion for writing.
His first poetry collection ‘Melting Faces in Cracked Mirror’, won the Reader’s Favorite International Book Award and debuted at #1 in New Releases for both African Literature and Death, Loss & Grief Poetry. This book has peaked at #13 for Bestsellers in Literary Speeches.
Since publication on February 28, 2021, Melting Faces in a Cracked Mirror has been added to four libraries: Deland Public Library, Deltona Regional Library, Hope Regional Library (Daytona Beach, Florida), and The Little Free Library of Lake Helen in Florida. The success of this project has led to the author being featured in a three-part article in the West Volusia Beacon newspaper.
E.D. Small was born and raised in the city of Deland, located in Central Florida. He attended Savannah State University. He is a husband to his loving wife and a father to three adorable children. He can be found @author.ed.small on all social media platforms. Please feel free to contact him via email author.ed.small@gmail.com.
Reviewed by Erin Nicole Cochran for Readers' Favorite
Melting Faces in a Cracked Mirror by E.D. Small is a collection of thought-provoking and action-provoking poetry like no other book out there today. Filled with images that are expressly unique and drawings throughout that create a complete atmosphere of ultimate feeling, E.D. Small’s Melting Faces in a Cracked Mirror smacks the reader in a “wake-up” to the world around you type of way. A wake-up call that can’t be shrugged off or ignored.
E.D. Small’s Melting Faces in a Cracked Mirror has poetry that morphs from one image to another, and at times you can feel the soul beating in the poet’s heart. You can see his life’s blood inked upon the screen and pages. It’s a tapestry stitched together of suffering, sadness, with beautiful threads of love intermingled. A man’s moments. One of my favorite moments appears on pages 66-67 titled “at the end of every rainbow (uncle art & I).” Without giving anything away, it’s a true poem that just pulls at everything that a person is made of. It’s a memory of such ultimate guidance that a reader can only hope they stumble across it within their own life. And I don’t imagine that there are many who have such a day in their memory banks. E.D. Small gives you pieces of his life as well as others who were taken too soon. His words create such a world to step through. On page 87 in “like a quiet storm brewing,” he describes the voice of Barry White “like a mug of steamy whipped chai tea and late-night radio.” All the senses swim in his words.
