Reckless

Reckless is a visceral poetry collection about loving too deeply, staying too long, and surviving what remains. Through long, unflinching poems, Samuel Ludke explores heartbreak, devotion, self-erasure, and the hard-won return to self.

These poems trace the aftermath of love-abandonment, memory, masculinity without armor, and the quiet discipline of choosing yourself after giving everything away. Raw, intimate, and unsensitized, Reckless is not about romance, but consequence.