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PostSecret: Confessions On Life, Death, And God (2009)

by Frank Warren(Favorite Author)

4.37 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061859338 (ISBN13: 9780061859335)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: I can only imagine some of the internal conflict of those who submitted these secrets. Frank does a good job of arranging them, but it is still the secret itself that speaks to the reader, and these at times scream at the reader to listen! pay attention! learn!. It will help you see humanity as one giant pot of emotion, and hopefully help you learn how to accept those flaws in yourself without judging too harshly yourself and others with those same flaws. A great read, revisited many times as there is always something new to be learned about yourself in the viewing of others' secrets (some of which you likely share).
review 2: FRANK WARREN PUBLISHES CONFESSIONS OF LIFE, DEATH, AND GODPostSecret Educates and Illuminates Suicide Prevention & FundraisingThere a... morere many routes into the PostSecret universe - museum exhibitions, a friend’s social media feed, browsing in a bricks and mortar bookstore or online bookseller and the proverbial grapevine. The brainchild of Frank Warren, PostSecret’s core mission is raising awareness and funds for suicide prevention via book sales, events and donations.September 4 through 8, 2011 marks the 37th annual National Suicide Prevention week and world suicide prevention day takes place September 10. The most chilling and recent statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ranks suicide among the top ten causes of death in the United States.Confessions on Life, Death, and God is the fifth book in the PostSecret series. Best described in Warren’s own words, “This book was inspired by a collection of more than three hundred postcards that were part of an exhibition at the American Visionary Museum called “All Faiths Beautiful. The never-before-seen secrets between these pages were chosen to expose the common landscape of our private lives – from our embarrassing desires to our hidden acts of kindness; from the private prayers of atheists to the voiceless doubt of believers.”Each genre-bending tome is too beautiful to hide on a bookshelf and too intense to leave alongside the toilet. The bedrock of PostSecret and the series of books are the hauntingly exquisite anonymous postcards. Messages tear at the reader’s gut and tears tumble freely. Only apathetic stoics escape the searing pain of the sender. Cathartic for the writer and the reader, affixing a stamp or hitting send frees one from the agony and rage so often the tipping point into self-destructive behavior.The startling messages and images are in many languages, across ethnicities, religions, and borders. Geography, age, sex, and sexual orientation are at once divergent and deeply unifying. A gray and white rendering of a map depicting two people on different continents bears the French phrase, “Nous Allons trover une solution,” which translates to “We’ll find a solution.” A page of death notices is the background of a card reading “I check the obituaries everyday hoping my ex-boyfriend is dead.” And the terrifying message “If it said yes. I was going to kill myself” emblazoned over the image of a pregnancy test wand. These are a few of the extraordinary emotions and fears raging on the pages of Confessions on Life, Death, and God.On the horizon is the PostSecret App where users will connect with like-minded people, read and share anonymous secrets and access the ominous images and text.Frank Warren began PostSecret as a community art project in 2004. To date more than half-million secrets have landed in Warren’s real life mailbox and a quarter-billion people have visited the organization’s website.Confessions on Life, Death, and GodFrank Warren © 2009Designed by Joy O’MearaISBN 978-0-06-185933-5 less

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