Songs for the Old Century - Softcover

Payne, David; Paris, Matthew L.

9781401004439: Songs for the Old Century

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ISBN 10: 1401004431 ISBN 13: 9781401004439

Publisher: Xlibris Corp, 2001

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This first book by the young, brilliant American writer, currently living in Paris, is an impeccable collection of stories, all of which share the innocent vision of an ethereal dreamer with the experienced craft of a master storyteller.

These stories have been likened to the mastery of writers such as Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Anderson, Hemingway and Borges.

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About the Author

"There are more poetic devices in these prose stories than in most contemporary poetry."

-Matthew L. Paris The life of David Payne is an enigma, a enigma far from the world, but which meets reality through writing. Born in Seattle in 1977, he wrote and published his first poem at the age of seven. Through the expanses of the earth, from New York City to San Francisco, New Orleans to Mexico, this man 'aux semelles de vent' (With the soles of his feet like the wind) paradoxically found his roots in the voyage. One day, his glance posed on Europe. He then traversed Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and then to France where wearily he rested and remained (his first book to be published was compiled in Paris). Though also a photographer, journalist, a painter, composer, and an entrepreneur, it is by the alchemy of his mastery of writing, the prodigious maturity of his style, that makes him most profound. "I see myself not as a man, nor as the sky, neither the stars - more as ember continuing to glow after the nights and the fires have ceased" He recently said while describing his work.

Review

"A genius is born!" -- Sherralynn Nursey, Editor in Chief, The Expatriate Review, June 1, 2001

"The first important book of this new century!" -- Aaron M. Pogue, NYC movie producer and film critic, ModeRoom Magazine, May 13, 2001

“There are more poetic devices in these prose stories than in most contemporary poetry.” -- Matthew L. Paris

“There are more poetic devices in these prose stories than in most contemporary poetry.” -- Matthew L. Paris, author and critic, NYC Cafe Magazine, April 9, 2001

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