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Solicitations

Solicitations

Marteen, Steven

Paperback

Poetry Anthologies

ISBN10: 1517337356
ISBN13: 9781517337353
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 13 2015
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Solicitations is a renaissance of epic poetry. The crux of Solicitations is two epic poems: Soliciting Cicero and Soliciting Scheherazade. Soliciting Cicero is comprised of four essays: On War, God, Happiness and Love. Stylistically influenced by Alexander Pope, it is a traditional poem of heroic couplets in pentameter. Soliciting Scheherazade, stylistically influenced by surrealism, is a surrealistic chronological history of the 20th century, presented in 40 parts. Marteen's sweeping analysis of our contemporary life and times, reveals nothing less than the darkest age in the history of civilization. The additional poems and sonnets that follow have meaning beyond the words while anticipating the reader's probe. The author hopes that Solicitations serves as a reconsideration of poetry as a philosophical and artistic discipline: Of late, some poetry has become vile, perverse and even bizarre. Works of some of the notable poets, I am unable to even recognize as poetry and often read as bad prose.

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