Jade water

Keys, Kerry Shawn

Kanchenjunga Press

Decoy's Desire (A Pennywhistle Chapbook)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Pennywhistle Press

<p>Avant-garde, boom generation poet, translator and international multimedia artist Kerry Shawn Keys presents a new volume of his surrealistic poetry. His poems are imagistic, lyrical vehicles that express Keys' personal observations of the natural world, contrasted to the artificiality of man's world. Keys' work has been praised by Pulitzer Prize winners Gary Snyder and Gerald Stern, among others, as innovative and musical. As a member of the post-war baby boom generation of poets, his approach is that of a deconstructionst, dancing to the inner music of a post-modern sensibility. An entertaining, thought-provoking read.</p>

The Burning Mirror

Presa Pr

One of the poems in Broken Circle, Kerry Shawn Keys entitles Voyage. It's about a cricket, but also about dreaming a cricket, and even a cricket's dream. The poet with his lips pressed against the cricket's wings, weighs anchor "on a round-trip into the blue night". Many of these poems are mysteriously intimate and beautiful in just this way - the way of a voyage from within nature, seldom a description from without. Keys is no dualist - he's right here, part of the crossfire "of bodies and souls coming and going". The poetry is lyrical, lush, and intelligent, making it almost un-American. I would suggest a voyage through this world, a world not yet given over to urban designs and decay. Here, immanence reigns, a wild belonging, a pastoral harrowing where wolf and lamb share the same golden fleece, where the broken circle of the seasons is still a circle. Keys has over forty books of poems, prose, and translations from Lithuanian and Portuguese, and throughout there is always the masterly touch of metaphor, rhythm and phrasing, and numinous moments when the darkest and lightest of epiphanies rhyme, where "all the flies on the ladder are angels" and "a Paleolithic lingam resembles a beached fish in the garden". Do angels go fishing with fly ties and catch lingams or ladders? You might, while reading these poems.

Broken Circle

Virtual Artists Collective

Book of Beasts

In his new collection of playful, shor poems, poet Kerry Shawn Keys presents us with the ultimate bestiary. Surrealist imagery combines with keen word-play in Keys' poems to tickle, tantalize & tease us beyond rationality into the cartoon world of his wild imagination. Nothing is as it appears in the Keys universe, yet it parallels & satirizes reality. These poems are witty & lyrically intense poem-toys, worh repeated readings for their entertainment value.

Black Ice

Black Spruce Press

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