Untitled Silence

About the Book

Untitled Silence can be called an ode to love. It is a collection of poems depicting the ups and downs of love and hate through its separation and its collectiveness. It explores the foundations of love through personal relationships, family and friends, and self plus loos at the consequences of letting love or hate consume you. The point of the exploration is not to answer what love can be but to show what love is.

About the Author

J.P. Fairfield was born August 30, 1979 in Chicago. J.P. is the youngest child of a working middle-class family. She began writing poetry at the young age of 12 but didn't fully realize her love of poetry until high school. She won an honorary mention in the Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Contest in the adult category when she was 16. Trying to pursue a career in technology, J.P. didn't write poetry for several years until the end of her second year in college. Later, she graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science. After graduating, she decided to take a year off before going into the workforce. Now, she is working with City Year helping children in a literacy program and organizing after-school programs and service projects around Chicago. She continues to read at various poetry clubs around Chicago and writes whenever she doesn't have writer's block.