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Home - and a journey to the USA. - Book Five of the Seven Worlds (Paperback)
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Home - and a journey to the USA. - Book Five of the Seven Worlds (Paperback)
Series: The Seven Worlds, 5
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Award winning poet, David Stuart Ryan, explores the impact of a
return to home after a round the world trip which has lasted some
years. The impact of half forgotten places and people comes across
in new and revealing ways as he explores what they still mean. But
the lure of travel calls again. There is a whole section of the
poetry which looks at America as he journeys there for a visit that
takes in a long trip along the ocean highway of the eastern
seaboard. The range of his travels from Toronto to South Carolina
enables him to capture the very essence of the American scene he
travels through and records in poem and picture. After this contact
with the American experience the poet returns to London England to
continue his exploration of roots, heritage, memory and how all
this has formed the present. The benefits of looking both inside
and outside the culture produce insights, discoveries, a greater
degree of understanding of the truth of our lives. Once again David
Stuart Ryan relies as much on his illustrations as on his poetry in
order to penetrate through to the very core of an experience. For
this is how we perceive our lives, we take in all available sources
of information and then combine them in our brains in order to
produce a picture, an approximation of reality. What precisely is
this reality? The poems search back in time, to childhood, to
history, to remembered fragments, snippets and glimpses from both
the past and present. Only by patiently reconstructing these early
traces of our lives can we hope to establish the meaning, the
direction and purpose of them As we reach the conclusion of this
journey of discovery, the family history looms large in the poems.
Old Victorian progenitors sit proudly on the page, they traveled
further and faster than even our own civilization. 'Home - and a
journey to the USA' concludes with a paean to the breaking dawn
down the home street as the rain fructifies and multiplies the life
in the patient sturdy trees. The poems in this volume are all
accompanied by David Stuart Ryan's original illustrations in full
color, helping to create a whole experience where words and
pictures reinforce and round out each other. The poetic experience
you receive is unforgettable in its deep seated images that call
and lure with their hints of another world alongside the everyday.
This is poetry at its finest reinforced by unforgettable original
images in full glorious color. It is an art lover's book just as
much as a poetry lover's book. Book collectors and art collectors
will immediately recognize the unique character of this poetry
volume, it is a work of art in itself which has been some 40 years
in the making.
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