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Right on My Own - Heart Won: Unlawful Love. Marks 2.0

Right on My Own - Heart Won: Unlawful Love. Marks 2.0

Smith, Salomé Baptist

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1669891917
ISBN13: 9781669891918
Publisher: Xlibris UK
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.53 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Come inside my paper parlour, come and party with my words and visions. There are worlds inside these sheets, whirling around the lens and captured by the eyes. The mind is endless inside these pages that know no walls and no confinements. Here you'll see love within two syllables or unspoken. Pain is a pose or on pause, you catch it raw or processed - and deletion is an option the mind can encompass inside this space. Open up the door of the book, and walk on in. If there are themes to poetry, the ones here are the classic ones of love, death, longing, memory, and the seduction of language. Photography has been inserted in the book, and at times within the body of the texts, as a contemporary calligraphy device, after the fashion of 20th century concrete poetry, or of 17th century pattern or hieroglyphic poems of George Herbert most notably. Emily Dickinson is a major influence, as the author of this book was lecturing on the poetry of the 19th century American writer to postgraduates in Paris and was struck by the boldness of her verse, her highly idiosyncratic punctuation, spacing and capitalizations, which led to literary isolation in her lifetime, and posthumous publication. It seems so obvious that the shape is the substance, the meaning is the form, as words come to life and dance off the pages or collide with each other yet align in their own perfect way, in harmony or agony. I think the reader sees it all very clearly, in these pages too. Right On, My Own- Heart Won. Salomé Baptist Smith helped by her mate, Ken Pate, when the ship hadn't sailed. Paris, Vendôme. 2016-2025.

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