LOST IN HINDSIGHT - Finishing Line Press 2008
Synopsis:
"C. S. Leaf's Lost In Hindsight is a lyrical dance to voice both necessary and new, old and resounding. Wondering. Wandering. Powerfully buoyant and brooding. His poetry is rich with incantation."
-GALE P. JACKSON, POET, WRITER & CULTURAL HISTORIAN
"C. S. Leaf's LOST IN HINDSIGHT is a lyrical dance to voice both necessary and new, old and resounding. Wondering. Wandering. Powerfully buoyant and brooding. His poetry is rich with incantation." -- Gale P. Jackson, Poet, writer, and Cultural Historian, current poet in residence for New York City's Public Schools. Selected Publications; Suite for Mozambique, MeDea, Bridge Suite: Narrative Poems,, and We Stand Our Ground(a collaboration with Kimiko Hahn and Susan Sherman)
“ADMIRED GREATLY” -- Dennis Flynn.
Writer, Historian, and Professor Bentley College, Awarded Scholar of the Year-1995, John Donne Society President - 2000, Currant Executive Committee (Ex Officio). Selected Publications : John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: vol. 7, Oxford edition of The Letters of John Donne.
"WELL DONE!" -Ernesto Santiago, Poet,
"VERY GOOD !” - Beverly Kleikamp, Poet & Editor
Editor of NORTHERN STAR MAGAZINE, and NORTH STAR BOOKS. Author “OF HIGHER POWERS”
"EXCELLENT. EXCELLENT WRITE AND READ." -
Anita Blanchard
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"An excellent write of an antediluvian prophecy, spiritually philosophical, visionary and at the same time an introspective view, very descriptive from start to finish. Great!" - Deborah Simpson - Mondial Amour Entertainment Magazine, Poet of the Month - August, 2007 Edition
“LOST IN HINDSIGHT Is a wonderful collection of poems that I found truly enjoyable... joyful... dark, full of emotion... HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL .” - Wolf, Poet
Book Excerpt:
LOST IN HINDSIGHT
ULYSSES
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell.
(Tempest, 2.1)
Cross legged I await
Heavens beams, to embrace
to bundle to lash with twine
drifting wood
While the waves whip the beach's grace
I hold the smooth forked roots in hand
Roots in time can break stone
and mold it as water is able
Water that feeds the root
Sun that feeds the fingers
I ask not much old sea
Dashing dead against stones
Barnacles tear at flesh and vessel
low birds impale the shell
to eat salty flesh
Everything and nothing is water
Eternal yet fleeting
Comforting yet cold
Supportive yet unwieldy
Reflective yet transparent
Hungry yet quenchless
Ye oldest mare
whose rising breasts swell
and hungry opens cavernous
to consume both breast and beam
Her victims wash about my feet
Ripen, swell abreast
resign this earth
Death who she knows best
who winged I've seen
who in decay keeps fertile, she
who drinks endless of streams immortal
I await her sea-nymphs call for me
Though I alone shall not quell
her endless thirst,
when half submersed.
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell
My life. My death
Deus pasit corvos
FROM A GAPE AROSE A ROSE DIVINE
From a gape arose a rose divine
The waves whipped the beach sands bare
Bones bleached and unhinged
Combine-
The flesh and shell, the fish and spine
Electrons changing orbitals
Four tons absorbed
specters educe an infinite line
A gape arose, a rose divine
And with one ray of light did grow
A quantum with each fraction of time
From a gape arose, a rose divine
Author Comment:
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Topics/Categories:
Inspirational, Personal Development, Poetry, POETRY DRAMATIC, Postmodern American Poetry
Genre:
African-American poetry, American Poetry, Arts, Dance, Drama, Essays, Fashion, General Arts, General Erotica, General Nonfiction, Music Theory, Philosophy, Poetry, Postmodernism, Theater
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C.S. LEAF POET PAGE
Original Publish Date:
2008-05-27
ISBNs:
978-1-59924-284-2
Publishing Notes:
Lost in Hindsight ships free from FINISHING LINE PRESS until MAY 16th 2008 ORDER NOW FOR signed numbered EDITION. NOMINATED FOR THE 2008 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE? AWAITING JUDGING.
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