Scott Vanya

My Body is a Forest-Oak/Torso (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Background: Five years or so passed after the production of "Revelation" (my first best of), so upon leaving my house and concluding my divorce, I felt it was time (and I was able to) step back and put together books of all the poems that really mattered to me. So I printed copies of all of them (over 1000 poems (leaving about another 900 for which I had no digital copies)) and began to edit and organize them so that I could pick out my favorite and/or what I felt were my "best" poems.

Very shortly there after I realized that I could not more "sort", i.e. A, B, C, the poems than I could say one of my children were my favorite over the other. So I searched for better analogies: what I came up with were Trees, to all of which i owe a great allegiance.

Over the ensuing three months, I was able to see sets of reoccurring themes, Love, Nature, God, Death, etc., as well as group them according to body parts. (I know more favored my right arm over my left, vice versa, nor they over my torso or head,. Without any of them i would feel incomplete.

Thus, 6 books were created: PECAN-HEAD, OAK-TORSO, CYPRESS-RIGHT_ARM, ELM-LEFT_ARM, WILLOW-LEFT_LEG, ASH-RIGHT_LEG, all of which I will publish as ebooks.

I am starting by publishing OAK-TORSO, because the poems included are the "nearest and dearest" to my heart. It includes the Long Poems, one almost forty pages long, as well as, all of the dramatic monologues I wrote for presentation at poetry open mics in Austin, TX (my home).

In closing, I say this: a human being is no more a single blade of grass (to borrow from Whitman) than he or she is a single role. We encompass many roles, and thus, are more akin to forests. And I, for one, freely and proudly, admit, "I am a tree-hugger."

Peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scott Vanya
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311160799
• Artikelnr.: 54638014

Autorenporträt

I've been writing for a very long time, what seems like my whole life, taking it seriously from the time I was about 11. Now, at 46, I think I may be starting to get the hang of it: Say what you feel, as passionately as you can, but always with an ear turned to those who are listening.
Most of my more serious work is done at live performances, which i do totally extemporaneously, channeling the mood of the room as my fingers play on the guitar. You can see some of that if you go to "my" website. (Open Mics Austin is a platform I created to showcase the Spoken Word scene here in Austin, TX. Only a small role in which i play.)
As far as I can tell what makes good writing is LOVE. Love ,plainly simply, and with no strings attached.
I put these words/books before you, not so much because I want something back from it, because I think and feel like I feel my bones and my soul, if you were to see the world, experience it like it do, for even a brief moment, you would walk away from that happier, more alive, compassionate and in tune with all those around you.
Peace, good will, and harmony. Let those be your guiding light.
Agape forever,
Scott Vanya

Publication Credits:
Stepping Stones Magazine, The Main Street Rag, www.carcinogenicpoetry.com, Texas Art Initiative, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Walt's Corner, Manna, Perigee, Chicago Literary Review, Mobius, Cosmic Trend, Pitchfork, Romantics Quarterly, Artisan, Pegasus, The Neovictorian, Red Owl, The Story Teller, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Atlantic Pacific Press