Monday, September 23, 2019

Draft of Book Review for Piercing The Veil 2019


I am writing on the other side of Pilot Mountain in Western Virginia
today at Pilot School. I agree with Marita Garin that a “regional literature is possible for Appalachia” and increasingly necessary. Piercing the Veil by Byron Hoot and Greg Clary is an effort to re-imagine Appalachian identity and explores newer possibilities through a poetic storyline of suggestion as well as the photographer’s careful lens. Part of the vocation of the Poet is to convey divine mystery and Piercing the Veil seeks to unravel the “ordinary extraordinary” all around us-it is a transcendental “in seeing” of the eternal now, a recasting of newer hope for a region still recovering from decades of industrial havoc and loss of identity.

-T. Byron Kelly
Studio Appalachia
Pilot Virginia








 

at No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Rimbaud’s Illuminations

I remember discovering Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations around 1994 or so and thinking that those poems were the pinnacle of his artistic expr...

  • Letter to Nikki Giovanni ( August 9th 1995)
    8/9/1995 Dear Nikki,  I wanted to write you and thank you for some time and perhaps it is the difficulty in the context of simply beginning ...
  • Language of Light
    My poetry, music and art have always been a place for me of supernatural communion between the divine and earthly realms.The liberation of t...
  • The River of Swans/ Vandalia
    I recall finding a book about the history of Washington DC (where I was born) in the library of a College that  I was teaching in the Summer...