Hi everyone - heres a freebie for you. #FREE - for two days, grab your copy now! #Poetry. Moment of Freedom: Selected Poetry. From Moment of Freedom: Seasons then the seasons start to swing with black & white Summers Autumn reds & yellows crushing Winter greys & soft Spring blues we are trees stripped bare & cold, our knotted limbs washed in shadows, years towards each other reach & the wind keeps our touch beyond grasp, almost beyond belief I look at you seasons swing again the curled ambrosia of your form beckons with fragility pure beauty permeates vision a breath is drawn a gasp of love then a chill creeps through the blood the distance is all too apparent Nature’s emotive quadrant diminishes aesthetically into the mire again, harsh reality sweeps the lovesick soul AMAZON U.S. - amazon/Moment-Freedom-Selected-Poetry-Horror-ebook/dp/B009XZI7LC/ref=la_B003PA513I_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421276302&sr=1-13 AMAZON U.K. - amazon.co.uk/Moment-Freedom-Selected-Poetry-Horror-ebook/dp/B009XZI7LC/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 From a readers review: William Cook joins the Modernism School of Poetry. From Wiki: For the modernists, it was essential to move away from the merely personal towards an intellectual statement that poetry could make about the world. Thus William combines a writing style of prose and poetry to weave an intellectual tapestry, slipping his words in and out of subjective and objective observations, pulling and pushing the reader to envision the completed tapestry while savoring the ins and outs of the words themselves, much as we watch a movie without thinking about the camera work or actor interpretations of the screenplay. As Peter Gabriel points out in The Cinema Show regarding the use of cosmetics: Concealing to reveal. Lets consider the The edge of the night from MOMENT OF FREEDOM: Selected Poetry. First off, two notes: the title Moment of Freedom is ironic in that the title indirectly states, a lifetime of slavery to the moment of freedom, much as the term a cloudless clim from Lord Byron, must incorporate cloud to denote an empty sky: an image to convey emptiness rather than simply using the unpoetic empty to state such. Second, the poems title capitalizes the article but not the noun or prepositional phrase, combining poetic license with standard grammatical rule (namely The, the first word in the line, must be capitalized). The intellectualizing has begun; William flaunts the worlds rules by obeying them as he pleases, this, a moment of freedom. To discuss Williams deliberate misuse of grammar would be folly as it is part of the pursuit to reach the reader. Note also his use of metaphor and litotes. To say simply: a corpse is not in his vocabulary; he metaphorically says dinner and the diner, death (the dead!). Knowledge is life, and life is accepting death: The darkness comes from knowing nothing is ours, except death.... The first slip into litotes comes from a shift into prose from the metaphor: ...to wake with a sore splitting back from the cold floor in borrowed clothes and eyes... and with the borrowed...eyes shifts back to poetry and metaphor. These are very aesthetic acrobatics. Furthermore, in the line To wake up and see the sun if not the glare from beyond we see additional shifts with the sun at once literal and figurative (as that solar body we find upon waking and as a metaphor for the afterlife). William maintains the balance between shifts throughout the work and ultimately time becomes a cannibal eating us as we sleep and wake, with varying degrees of metaphoric intents. Thus, the final line of Part II captures this fatality of cannibalism of the self as William becomes the I of the poem and states the thesis with the if, bringing together the personal and the intellectual in Part III: The science of the mind corroded the body, blinded every mile I ever burnt in this life and the next if there ever were such a thing. A work in three parts, The edge of the night is representative of the poetry throughout MOMENT OF FREEDOM. Think of the book as a complete poem with each individual poem making up the whole. I do not recommend jumping around reading individual works, but rather beginning to end, as one would read James Joyces Ulysses or William Burroughs Naked Lunch. It is a work worthy to be mentioned with these modernist authors. - Anthony Servante.
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