Project End Of Days: Selected Poems [Paperback]

T. Byron Kelly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2005

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 almost twenty years, Project End Of Days is a celebration of "heartsongs" that will inspire.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (October 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595372805
• ISBN-13: 978-0595372805
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,323,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry for a Season beyond Autumn but not Winter, November 14, 2005

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Joseph P. Sigrist (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Project End Of Days: Selected Poems (Paperback)

This a a cycle of poems which resists summary or quotation

of a few lines as they are whole and irreducible and if

reducible to anything perhaps to a season, let it be an

Autumn of inwardness and an Autumn pervaded by the presence

of ghosts and 'ghost' is a key word for the author but the

ghosts are not threatening--rather they are shadows of things

past ,present and to come ,of seasons just beyond Autumn of

realities felt but not at hand. We feel the ghostly as promising

a season coming in which the overlapping visionary and factual

realities merge into a newly unified vision and that a

season beyond Autumn but neither Winter nor Spring nor

Summer. Kelly loves Blake and Li Po but it is more as

presence or ghost that they are here than as influence

for the poems are deeply personal and I give them the full

five stars to point up that they are real poetry

important in aspiration and in acheivment and worth anyone's

attention.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Thing, February 9, 2008

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A. J. Kelly (Blue Ridge Mts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Project End Of Days: Selected Poems (Paperback)

T.Byron is my brother, and I can honestly say he's "the real thing." I can't seem to keep a copy of this book at my house. Guests leaf through it and want to borrow it. I know I'm biased, but I have to say from my heart that Byron has written some really truly beautiful poetry.

Every poem in this book has depth. The many layers come to life with each new reading. It's a sensitive, insightful peek into the human condition. When I read it, I easily get lost in the lush heavenly imagery, and ultimately feel transformed by the revelation offered so freely from his dear, loving (forgiving) soul.

Byron is and always will be one of the most influential and beloved teachers in my life. Through this book of poetry, our daily spiritual conversations, and his many other artistic creations, he leads me toward God. For this, I am eternally grateful.

I can't wait for his next volume. I'll have to order some extras for company...

5.0 out of 5 stars Mystical images, symbols of the spirit., December 28, 2005

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V. Abshire "daisydumont" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Project End Of Days: Selected Poems (Paperback)

Byron's poems range from beautiful clarity in his early works to the mystical, almost eerie in his later ones. I have seen his paintings online and find them well matched by the poems, symbolically. Images stand out: dark birds, angels' wings, rain at night. The other-worldly quality of the collection is a challenge and a pleasure to the reader.