Coffee Stained Teeth, by Caleb Mendes

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Coffee Stained Teeth is a chapbook collection revolving around the concept of love, heartbreak, and coffee. Bringing a raw and vulnerable look into the authors perception of a relationship and how coffee is still one thing that he holds dear from it. Often bringing to mention the title “coffee stained teeth” to show what part of love holds on and how the past can be honored through small gestures. Coffee and love are treated like a religion as this chapbook dedicates itself as a letter to heartbreak from a very personal point of view. From the Two Lies told over and over, to the Sunday Service asking for answered prayers, this book is dedicated to every over-caffeinated lover. These poems are for you. Caleb Mendes is an artist, writer, and poet from Odessa, TX. His first self published poetry novel, Outside of Eden, is an artistic approach in describing his own childhood, while his upcoming second full poetry novel, A Sea of Fiction, is a more straightforward approach toward love. Caleb has an extensive career as an independent artist and enjoys live music, table top games, and watching movies.