Foreigner

By Keith Holyoak

Book Overview

Poetry. Illustrations by Jim Holyoak. "It is not every day a professional cognitive psychologist turns into a poet, yet that is what we have in Keith Holyoak. His study of Chinese poetry, especially Li Bai (Li Po) and Du Fu (Tu Fu), was the catalyst that brought about this remarkable metamorphosis. He has somehow managed to let the spirit of Chinese poetry speak through him, with no loss of his sense of being an American. A wonderful intelligence is brought to the task, which understands the profound subtlety of poetry, no matter what nationality it is. He writes in 'Return to Peach Blossom Spring': 'Radiance washed / The blindness from my eyes.' We are able to re-experience the world through him, renewed in this way. His grasp of form, of political reality, of transience, and of the redemptive powers working in poetry, bring to American literature something no country can afford to lose: a sense of class in the fine arts. The Dos Madres Press is to be congratulated for publishing this book, which is sensitively illustrated by Jim Holyoak, son of the poet and psychologist." Sebastian Barker FRSL, poet and editor of The London Magazine 2002-2008"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933675772
• ISBN13: 9781933675770
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 114 Pages