New Selected Poems of T.Byron Kelly [Paperback]

T. Byron Kelly (Author)

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Publication Date: December 3, 2009

I find connectedness through various forms (poetry, painting, music) by insisting on spontaneity. An image that I paint could very well become a chorus in a song. Paying close attention to my dreams and the soft voices inside my imagination, and allowing these to shape within my being's center (an emanation of my heart), this is the affirmation of the symbolic through faith. An invisible loving which manifests itself through patience and is never controlled- the hidden becoming known. My work will always seek an affirmation or communion while creating a liberation of the ordinary. A visionary poetic journey of over twenty years, New Selected Poems is a celebration of "heartsongs" that will inspire.

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• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (December 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440192685
• ISBN-13: 978-1440192685
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,135,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Poet, Painter and Musician T. Byron Kelly (born in Washington D.C.) has been working as an active performance artist in the South Western Virginia area for over two decades. Live, spontaneous lyric poetry performances and gallery exhibits have been at the heart of the Poet's work. As an Undergraduate and Graduate student, Byron studied with poets Nikki Giovanni, Lucinda Roy, Grace Bauer and Anne Bromley, as well as novelist Don Secreast and painter Janet Niewald. Byron received private art instruction during that time and was also a member of Tri-M (Modern Music Masters honor society). Byron studied the relationships between poetry, painting and music and soon began to illustrate his own poems with paintings and put them to music as well. Byron has also taught creative writing and composition on the college level and is a member of the Blue Ridge Studio-Virginia, the Appalachian Writers Association (A.W.A.),the Appalachian Authors' Guild (A.A.G.), the XYZ Gallery (Blacksburg, VA.), the Jacksonville Center for the Arts (Floyd,VA.) and the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Center (Christiansburg, VA).
I paint poems and found a kind of home there> My paintings have always been rather cartoon like and fantastically oriented, a rendering of a dream if you will- I always thought (about realist art) that if you wanted a photograph then why not take a snapshot with a camera?

Project End of Days-Selected Poems [e-mail] Poetry@ http://tbyronk.livejournal.com Music@ http://www.spectralarts.net http://www.myspace.com/spectralarts http://www.myspace.com/blueridgestudio http://www.youtube.com/spectralarts Painting@ http://www.artwanted.com/angelspeak

*Primary Influences Artistically> Alan Hovhaness /William Blake/ Li Ho/ Dante Alighieri/ Mattie Stepanek/Maya Angelou/Rainer Maria Rilke/Robinson Jeffers/Kenneth Patchen/William Everson/Hermann Hesse/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/Robert Bly/ Boris Pasternak/ Fredrico Garcia Lorca/E.A.Poe/Ekiwah Adler Belendez/John Milton/Nathaniel Hawthorne/Ralph Waldo Emerson/Matsuo Basho/ J.M.W.Turner/ Henry Fuseli/ John Martin/ Vincent Van Gogh/ Claude Monet/ Francisco de Goya/Bob Kane/Edvard Munch/ Gustav Klimt. /Tom Waits/Simple Minds/The Doors/Bjork/U2 /Brian Eno/Peter Gabriel/Tears For Fears/Cocteau Twins/The Cure/Patti Smith//

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This is Byron's second book and it is very well written. His ability ability to transform the written word into something so beautiful and thought provoking just gets better and better. His insight into the world and explaining it through poetry is just magical. Our poets today are so fortunate to have him in their ranks. Not only a poet but an artist with many many talents. His music has always brought such a nice touch to his poetry. Have heard him perform and his voice is even more beautiful than his poetry. Not many artists have the talent, vision and ability to be a poet but he does all so so beautifully. Well done Byron!!