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Blowing Out The Candles: Book One, Souls
Blowing Out The Candles: Book One, Souls
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"Souls" is the first book in Jim Gee's Trilogy, "Blowing Out The Candles".
Sometimes, when a person has spent his life pursuing a life of scholarly work and deep contemplation, if a moment comes when he hears music or poetry, however strident or dissonant or melodic, whatever the text, and however raw and revealing it may be, he writes it down and does not fear it.
This is Garn's understanding of how Jim Gee wrote his poems. He says he doesn’t know where the poems came from. They arrived it would seem, like Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, only for Gee the “rite” comes in the winter, in the midst of his aging discontent.
“All of us humans think, feel, and speak in poetry when we hurt,” Gee says. “Prick us, do we not all bleed in pulses and rhythms, in metaphors and pleas? When we drop pretense, we are incensed as humans at unfairness. We are incensed at anyone being left out, put down, or left to drown in sorrow.”
Sometimes, when a person has spent his life pursuing a life of scholarly work and deep contemplation, if a moment comes when he hears music or poetry, however strident or dissonant or melodic, whatever the text, and however raw and revealing it may be, he writes it down and does not fear it.
This is Garn's understanding of how Jim Gee wrote his poems. He says he doesn’t know where the poems came from. They arrived it would seem, like Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, only for Gee the “rite” comes in the winter, in the midst of his aging discontent.
“All of us humans think, feel, and speak in poetry when we hurt,” Gee says. “Prick us, do we not all bleed in pulses and rhythms, in metaphors and pleas? When we drop pretense, we are incensed as humans at unfairness. We are incensed at anyone being left out, put down, or left to drown in sorrow.”
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