MANTEO, N.C. - An ascetic romantic, John Patrick Acevedo began his quest for God and love while he was a freshman at Clemson University. As he showed up rather nervously to his very first college course, he was quite stunned to see a beautiful professor, Amanda Dyer, who would prove to be instrumental to his writing. During his sophomore year at Boston University, he started to "write poetry that was exactly the same as the Holy Bible." It was only after graduating after Boston, however, that he committed to writing poetry. In his latest installment of poetry in "Healing w/o Patient Suffering (for Virginal Sole Distinction): More Ethos by John Patrick" (published by Xlibris), Acevedo discusses the spirit or karma from an animal magnetic dimension of human nature and how it is actually the passion of the sociological aspects of autonomy and choice. "These are original poetry with innovative ideas that have a lyrical style of my own. My poetry book is romantic, aesthetically spiritual and quite emotionally moving. Its overall theme is that weakness is fundamentally seen as pathos or logos when in actuality, it is an ethos," Acevedo says. When asked what he wants readers to take away from his writing of the book, Acevedo says, "that life is brief and that it is all about what you put into it." Of the 86 poems in the book, most have appeared in the previous Synergy Press (synergy-press.org) books he published between 2012 and 2018. "Healing w/o Patient Suffering (for Virginal Sole Distinction): More Ethos by John Patrick" By John Patrick Acevedo Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 184 pages | ISBN 9781796023497 Softcover | 6 x 9in | 184 pages | ISBN 9781796023480 E-Book | 184 pages | ISBN 9781796023473 Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble