Entropy Loop & Other Poems

by Jeffrey Heath

Entropy Loop & Other Poems invites readers into a hauntingly beautiful meditation on loss, memory, and transformation. With searing vulnerability and lyrical precision, these poems traverse emotional landscapes where time loops and language fractures under the weight of grief and longing. From barren deserts whispering of oceans past to surreal dreamscapes filled with ghosts and gods, this collection captures the quiet devastation and fierce resilience of the human spirit. Every poem is both elegy and invocation—an offering to what was, and a prayer for what might still be reclaimed.

49 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2025

About the author

Jeffrey Heath was born in Amarillo, Tx and raised in South Florida. His first chapbook, American Drug Poems (2000) coincided with his time on the poetry slam scene where he represented the city of West Palm Beach at the National Poetry Slam (2001, 2002). Jeffrey's work has appeared online and in print in several literary and poetry journals,including Poetry Super Highway, Eunoia Review, Synesthesia Literary Journal, The Syzygy Poetry Journal, Third Wednesday, wildscape. Literary Journal, and as a monthly feature in Neologism Poetry Journal and Goodreads, among others. He is the founding editor of January House Literary Journal. Jeffrey currently lives in Memphis, TN.

Reviews

[Ryan and Sara Wendt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeffery Heath’s Entropy Loop: And Other Poems is a brilliant masterpiece and collection of poems that capture the raw and vulnerable emotions of the human experience.  Jeffery Heath knows how to authentically capture the human experience throughout this beautiful collection of poems.  


In Entropy Loop: And Other Poems, Health takes his audience on a journey through the emotional landscapes of what being a human is like in our world today. His poems are also a reflection of the raw emotional landscape of Heath’s own journey of grief and longing in life. There are many lessons to be gained for those who read the words of his heartfelt poems. Jeffery Heath’s journey through grief, memory, and transformation has much to teach all of us all about the human spirit. 


As someone who admires beautiful heartfelt poetry, Heath’s poems are deeply moving. His use of language describes grief, longing, and transformation that are new to the genre of poetry. Heath’s poetry cuts right to the human spirit and touches the inner core of a person’s heart. Jeffery Heath knows how to invoke human emotion, something we all need to experience from time to time. 


Heath’s  collection of poems signals a message of hope for the human heart. That message is: “Everything is going to be okay. You are not alone in your grief.” Therefore, Jeffery Heath’s poems are full of  reassurance. He is truly a “poetic healer.”


Jeffery Heath’s book, Entropy Loop: And Other Poems is truly a brilliant collection on loss, resilience, and transformation. I recommend this beautiful and emotional poetic masterpiece to anyone in need of healing and hope. Jeffery Heath is truly a brilliant poet who knows how to capture the raw and vulnerable emotions that every single person experiences.

[Thrifty Geek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection’s overall tone for me seemed to be melancholy even in the more uplifting poems, but it works for this collection. I resonated with “Depression”, because I suffer from mental health issues and this poem captures perfectly how it feels to wake up, and try to put yourself together the best way you can. Jeffery Heath beautifully uses nature elements in his work, whether it’s describing what he sees on a journey, or to parallel the narrator’s life. I felt many of the poems in this collection told an overall story of a man who loved, then suffered a love broken, to only have hope spring again, which I found to be a great way to tell a story. I thought it was a sad but beautiful one. Heath also gives us a variety of poems. He explores various poetic structuring throughout the book, He's not just a one trick pony, and it gives us variety.
My only issue was when I began reading I struggled with how the sentences were structured. It caught me off guard at first and disoriented my reading, but I soon picked up the flow, and it became easier to read, so a minor issue.
If you love haunting poems that tell the story of faded love, nature, and just pondering on the world, then I highly encourage you to read this collection. Heath truly proves his poetic expertise with each work in this book.

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entropy Loop: & Other Poems by Jeffrey Heath is a short, powerful collection of soul-searing poems. An elegy to love, loss, regret, and longing. Cries of loss are woven with prayers of hope which stir the souls of all who have had it all and lost it along the way.

In 42 pages, I felt I knew what it felt like to have found the love of my life. I knew the hole in my soul that was left from the loss of that love. The regret for actions that cannot be undone. I knew longing for things that cannot be replaced. And finally, I knew the sweet peace of memory.


Jeffrey Heath’s majesty with words took me on a ride through my darker emotions without leaving me shattered. The raw honesty of Heath’s lyrical prose carried me deep into the heart of the man. The writing lingers long after reading, both heartbreaking and strangely comforting in its honesty and imagination. 


Such vulnerability is a gift to readers everywhere. For those of us who have suffered great loss, there is a frustration when folks ask, “How are you doing?” The answer lies within.


In the end, this collection left me moved, unsettled, and oddly comforted all at once. It doesn’t hand out easy answers, but it does offer honesty, beauty, and a sense of connection. I’d recommend it to anyone who wants poetry that speaks straight to the heart and stays there.

[Cait's Reading Nook · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entropy is defined as a measure of disorder or randomness. This collection from Jeffrey Heath explores loss, resilience, and transformation.

It’s a vulnerable collection, exploring mental health, loss, relationships, and connects the concept of entropy throughout each poem.

In several of the poems, the personification of the blossoms of the magnolia tree waking up to the sunlight, memory, and the ocean was incredibly vivid.

Memorable quotes included:

“Memory is a gentle trespasser
It doesn’t knock. It slips in”

“The sea is an unreliable historian.
It keeps your foot prints just long enough to forget them.”

The poem Syntax was a powerful way to describe a relationship, incorporating the elements of grammar throughout the poem. “We love in grammatical errors: dangling promises, split intentions, each touch a clause that contradicts the list.”

I recommend this collection of poems. It’s thought provoking, personal, honest, descriptive, and reflective.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Book Reviewer · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Entropy Loop & Other Poems, Jeffrey Heath writes as if each line has been carried in the pocket for years, worn smooth by time and touch. The collection turns ordinary moments—a window view, a misplaced ring, a drifting seed—into coordinates on an emotional map where love, distance, and memory overlap.

These are not showy poems; they exhale as much as they inhale. The voice is grounded yet restless, shifting between intimacy and vastness, the personal and the cosmic. The effect is less like reading and more like overhearing the quiet truths people tell only when the lights are low.