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.