Website of Raymond Keen: http: //raymondkeen.com/ E-mail address of
Raymond Keen:
[email protected] As the reader moves through my
volume of poetry, Love Poems for Cannibals, he/she will find poems
of war (in this case Vietnam), poems dealing with current spiritual
issues (Christianity, Buddhism, spiritual doubt and the
soaring-singing human spirit), dysfunctional family relationships
and feelings, portraits of great figures in contemporary human
history presented with candor and wit, poems that rage against the
omnipresence of human hypocrisy and poems that present
American/Western civilization under the glaring light of truth -
with the single redemptive quality that this truth sings in these
poems. A volume of contemporary poetry, Love Poems for Cannibals
expresses the thoughts, feelings, quandaries and wonder of an
American poet very much alive to the darkness and light of the 21st
century. Poet Raymond Keen writes, "I was born and raised in
Pueblo, Colorado. Back in my childhood of the 40's and my
adolescence during the 50's, I believed in human greatness and
human virtue. I had respect for authority, and believed that life
was fundamentally fair and could be understood as a rational
narrative. I believed that a human being could, through words, come
close to expressing the truth, even if only a momentary fragment of
this truth. I now realize that I may have been overly optimistic.
Human verbal communication characteristically obscures the truth,
as it covers the truth with the repetitive cliche. My poetry
attempts to make that insight present, palpable, and undeniable.
Although I sometimes may succeed in getting through or beyond the
cliche, I make no claims on truth." In Love Poems for Cannibals,
truth and beauty, body and spirit, mind and matter, pain and
pleasure admix in the following eight sections: The Vietnam War is
not dinky dau. (1967-1968) Est Deus in Nobis. (1969-2012) Mother Is
On Vacation. (1974-2004) mouth-honour (1973-2003) Is There Mucus in
Paradise? (1973-2010) Homo Homini Lupus Est. (1976-2009) Final
Entropy (1974-2012) Prose Coda (2001-2012) Making reference to
current cultural, political and social events, Raymond Keen's poems
can be darkly provocative, bitingly witty and serenely
contemplative. Raymond writes, "I want readers to be stirred with
questions about what it means to be a human being. I don't provide
answers, but I try to make clear what the stakes are. The stakes
for human beings in the 21st century are very high." Powerful,
memorable, wise, and at times infuriating, his collection of poetry
is the result of an accumulation of language gems and
cultural/literary insights acquired over many years, which shed
light on the time in which we are now living.
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