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From Patrick Ware comes, Life's a Sprint: The Allegory of Truth; a poetry collection detailing the author's spiritual journey from 2017-2019. Succeeding his first two collections, which were poetic memoirs of the journey, LAS details everything Patrick has experienced under the sun. 

Lani and K, Lead the Way is an ode to representation, knowledge, inclusion, and growth in the youth. This book vows to teach the listener that the journey doesn't end with gaining knowledge; instead, it begins with everything you will do once you gain the knowledge. This short body of work follows two young sisters Lani and K on a journey to save their community through the power of books. 

Throughout the exhilarating autobiography of Patrick Ware, you get the opportunity to take each step of his life with him. Ware paints the picture of each pivotal moment in his life with vivid details. You will get lost in this book because your life will seemingly become his. Growing up, he was always told to never forget who he was, and where he came from. That's where 1606 comes from. It is who, where, and what he is at his core. His home. But oftentimes we lose sight of that and some of us aren't ever able to find our way back.

From Patrick Ware, comes The Walk.; a poetry collection that documents the journey of the steps "the brother" takes during a day, and those steps in turn being his walk of life. The Walk. is his life in a day and personifies his long walk to nowhere, because he didn't know he needed to be anywhere.

In the follow-up to his first poetry collection, the walk., a laborious trudge. exemplifies Ware's masterful ability to story-tell through poetry and prose. ALT is a poetic metaphor for the struggles of young Black men in this world. Each part is written as journal entry pulled from the diary of a new "Young Brother." This young brother being the older brother of the child from the walk. He encountered some hardship over the past seven days and decided to document his shortcomings as a release.