Language of Souls - Hardcover

Frankovich, K. T.; Taub, David; Solomon, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1894368002 ISBN 13: 9781894368001

Publisher: Authors Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Language of Souls is a remarkable coffee table book combining fine art with poetic expressions about humanity. Three internationally published poets take you from dreams and time and move you through the realms of people and human nature, life and retrospection, moons and introspection, and intimacy and spiritual dimensions.As you make your way into the book, the pencil sketches by a world class artist take you on another spiritual voyage.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Solomon: Host of New South Performance Poets Association

Through performing at the "grassroots level", Ruth has received public acclaim for her performances. Published in a number of small literary presses mostly by publisher request, she is still deeply involved in perfecting her art. She believes whole-heartedly in the power of the spoken word, as well as the written word and believes the two can and should meet, in order to take poetry to its next level.

Ruth recently moved to Fairhope, Alabama and is a member of the Alabama State Poetry Society, the Pensters Writing Group, a patron of the West Florida Literary Federation, and the founder of the New South Performance Poets Association. On Long Island, Ruth was a staff member of the Performance Poets Association of Long Island, NY, and also affiliated with the Montage Writers Group, the Montage Radio Theatre, the Acoustic Poets Network and the Live Poets Society. She also held the postion of poetry librarian of the Writers Club LTD Poetry Place for several months, hosted on America On Line (now also on the WWW) and was responsible for reviewing and uploading the works of over 6000 online poets. She was one of the original members involved in a project with a group of talented online poets called, "PoetProject" conceived and founded by KT Frankovich in January 1997.

Ruth's poetry has appeared in the Babylon Review, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Maelstrom, Internet Poetry Magazine, Emotions Magazine, Web of Words Anthology, Write Justified (England Mensa), and several online 'zines, and has her own section on the highly acclaimed acclaimed Poetry Cafe Website. David Taub, stateside journalist for "Poetry Now", England's largest poetry magazine, made special mention of her works and performances in the October issue 1997Solomon is also a published author of short stories Getting Real (The Burning Cloud Review) and School of the Stones (Pathways Press). Ruth has been contracted for two books, by Language of Souls Publishing, Inc. Canada, one an anthology entitled "Language of Souls" with two other poets, David Taub (England), K.T. Frankovitch (Florida) and a world renowned artist, Freydoon Rassouli to be released in September 1999. Her next book is her own, entitled "A UniVERSE InVERSEd will be released with CD, October 2000.

Ruth is an English Major at the University of South Alabama and founder of the New South Performance Poets Association, and hosts a reading venue at Barnes and Noble, Mobile AL every second Friday of the month. The Babylon Citizen's Arts Council honored Ruth with the Written Arts Award for the year 1998. Solomon has toured several states in 1997, and performed at Fanuell Hall, TT, the Bears, Phoenix Cafe, Nuyrican Poets Cafe, Borders Books, Books A Million, Barnes and Nobles among other venues and bookstores. She was the subject of a Channel 12 News interview performed on radio (WSUB). She hosted interactive poetry programs at the Amityville Public Library. Occasionally she does radio commentaries on poetry, and is planning to help create a Poem A Day program for a local public radio station (WHIL 93.3). Ruth is a staunch supporter of the creative endeavors of others and for two years ran a domain called the More than Books Realm, where they could find motivation, receive tip! s and read articles about others successfully making they way in their art and promote their own work. She also provides affordable creative services for fellow artists. When asked about her move to Fairhope, AL ... she simply says: "After all of my struggles, I finally feel like I've come home. Like I belong."

From the Inside Flap

You have felt it...You have thought it...You have longed for it...But you could never find the words. Live it now through language of souls.

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Language liberated humanity from the cave, led us to explore outer space, has enabled us to learn more about the universe we inhabit. Poetry liberated language from basic meaning, led us to explore inner space, has enabled us to learn more about the soul we inhabit. Poetry is the supreme use of language; an attempt to express the inexpressible Poetry is words... jewel-words, multi-faceted, casting multi-colored light on experience elastic words, stretching into unsuspected areas of meaning; suggesting there is more than seems to be there; tempting, daring interpretation. stimulating words that force us to reconsider set-pattern reactions, to allow new revelations to wash over our accepted reality, leaving us with new insights and a sharpened vision Poetry is sound... Poetry is rhythm... Poetry is pattern... Poetry is influence... Poetry is art... Artistic expressions by Freydoon Rassouli provide a linear counterpart to the mystique of the poems. His artwork vibrates with sensuality. Magnified pores, follicles, cellular motifs blend with the nocturnal shades of the spheres. Elongated passages entice to apertures, to mysterious tunnels, to the cervix of the universe, penetrable, yielding, malleable - pathways to creativity. Poetry is inspiration...Experience, historical and daily-living experience, has proven over and over that we make imprecise use of this great gift of language. For centuries we have been talking and seemingly listening but misunderstanding one another - with resulting family strife, community conflict, world wars. Poetry cannot correct this situation but it can suggest that there is a truth that lies beyond our individual realities; a truth that encompasses a greater universe than the one limited by our senses; a multi-leveled truth to be investigated, enjoyed and treasured. Poetry also rekindles our appreciation of the overwhelming natural beauty that we accept too readily as matter of course. Above all it proclaims and establishes the splendor of the human spirit that can find its rich expression only through poetry, the language of souls. Morgan Kenney 1999

Edition details

• Publisher: Authors Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894368002
• ISBN 13: 9781894368001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 136