Couture Collection [Paperback]

Sapphire Pleiades (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2009

The poems in this book play upon the idea that one can fashion the self. Written in quatrains of short lines piled upon each other in such a way that they resemble a tall, thin fashion model on high heels, the poems employ a sophisticated vocabulary. Yet the fashioning aspect of the book is deeper than that. The book begins with two pouty reflections by a woman poet about self-worth, as she contemplates poets of the past and their fame and her role within that tradition. It closes with an affirmation that pleasure and God are one and are the source of all poetics. The cast of characters includes cats and Jesus, fashion designers and famous poets, and Emily Dickinson as the ruling central lady. Not a book to be read quickly or skimmed over lightly, its vocabulary embodies coding "like filigree, like riddles, like runes." It can be thought of as a record of a mystical trance or a deeply intellectual examination of the questions it raises or implies. Contains a glossary that is both enlightening and entertaining.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The poems in this book play upon the idea that one can fashion the self. Written in quatrains of short lines piled upon each other in such a way that they resemble a tall, thin fashion model on high heels, the poems employ a sophisticated vocabulary. Yet the fashioning aspect of the book is deeper than that. The book begins with two pouty reflections by a female poet about self-worth, as she contemplates poets of the past and their fame and her role within that tradition. It closes with an affirmation that pleasure and God are one and are the source of all poetics. The cast of characters includes cats and Jesus, fashion designers and famous poets, and Emily Dickinson as the ruling central lady. A book to be read quickly or lightly, its vocabulary embodies coding "like a filigree, like riddles, like runes." It can be thought of as a record of a mystical trance or a deeply intellectual study of the questions it raises or implies. Contains a glossary that is both enlightening and entertaining.

From the Author

Sexy, chic, and spiritual is this book, which combines mysticism and a million-dollar vocabulary. Delicate and central is its dainty step by step prance at a slow pace, a lady's self-fashioning musings on display like a beauty in haute couture. These poems revolve around forced spondees, forced by nature of their slow steady quick syllables, which are supposed to be read aloud like at an afternoon tea in a chateau, with all nobility as the guests. They employ a new style in English, an impossibility solved, which is how to be genteel and small yet infinitely grand in view both at once. They are the collection of an hour, a quick tango, a little ball, and yet they are in topics of a mystic apprehending awe- lavishly feted with the gift the poetess can give- words like diamonds a long necklace that is woven into a dress- this is the Couture Collection of Sapphire Pleaides and we pray it is recieved with dignity with reverence and with love. It is to be prayed that this book should become what it ought to be- a joyous intrigue of a celebration of mind and its manifestations, a glory of desire to please and to be perfect- it is wanted, that this experience, this book, be worthy of approval- beyond- brushed with gold and with elixirs of heaven! You can collect something of beauty! Buy today!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: The Wildflower Press; First edition (January 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977993337
• ISBN-13: 978-0977993338
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,456,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Greetings from the beings of more love! Sapphire Pleiades is sojourning awhile in the lovely west of america and is voluble enough to have written about twenty-four books in the past dozen years! Her books are online including epic poems, sonnet sequences, lyric and free poetry, essays, and short stories, plus non-fiction. She is publishing her three epic poems, which represent three cultures, three spiritual realities, three interactions with wild divinity! Please email her at [e-mail]. A prayer for eternal life!
Speaking fluent Spanish and German, and having studied also Sanskrit and Latin a little, Sapphire spends her time in reading, music, and art, as does Michael, her life partner. His psychedelic paintings can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/intergalacticstarship1 and they are beyond human in perfection! He is fluent in several languages and is the irrepresable muse of the spirited Sapphire. Their lives are leisure and lull and love and their lack of friction spills into the most fluid delicate verse and music yet tensile with the urges of the angels!
Her books available currently on Amazon.com include Couture Collection, Les Fables Des Fleurs Michael the Lion from Venus, and Ganga Gita, all of which give a glimpse of devotion to the peruser of these tomes! Read and be prepared to be amazed!