On Love: Transmuting Embodied Experience into Neuroaesthetics Poetry with Esther Kentish

On Love is a multimedia poetry collection by Esther Kentish that bridges the poetic and the medical, the emotional and the neurobiological. Informed by the author’s lived experience with synesthesia, grief, and sacred sexuality, the book engages a unique neuroaesthetic framework that views poetry not just as art—but as embodied medicine. Each piece is a case study in affect, crafted from emotional rupture, spiritual longing, and sensory memory. Kentish’s work emerges from the logic of the nervous system: fragmented repetition, color-language fusion, breathwork, and silence all function as tools of healing. With roots in neuroscience, trauma theory, and embodied aesthetics, On Love invites readers to witness how poetry can metabolize pain, reconstruct memory, and restore the self. It is a profound offering to clinicians, caregivers, artists, and all who seek healing through language.