Category: Poetry Publisher: Michael P. Clutton
ISBN-10: 1466251271
Pages: 77
Copyright: August 25, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781466251274
Teardrops From Cloud Nine showcases nearly four decades of intimate expressions woven into the delicate fabric of a creative tapestry on the wall of one man's life.
A compilation of original verse and poetry depicting a lifetime of desire, fear, loss, imagination, passion and triumph. Teardrops From Cloud Nine, ranging from amateurish to borderline genius, will tug at any heart while potentially moistening the eye of the beholder.
"Brace yourself for an imaginative journey."
"Poignant… and Provocative"
"Unforgettable."
"An eruption of deeply emotional experiences."
Teardrops From Cloud Nine showcases nearly four decades of intimate expressions woven into the delicate fabric of a creative tapestry on the wall of one man's life.
Excerpt
I never gave a girl flowers and candy. I gave her words. And when colorful daydreams bubbled over into a waking reality, it was paper and pen that captured the residual affects in black and white.
What follows is an excavation of the emotional caverns between my ears. Painful relics – buried sensations – fragments of joy – treasured nuggets of my life extracted in their original form and presented in no particular order.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
