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The collection is big in breadth, big in length, big in scope, it's also big in heart and soul, big in humor and wisdom. Reading these dazzling poems, you'll hear echoes from near and far, from the distant past, the relatively recent past, and the present. The great and vaunted poets of the West show up from time to time in these pages as references, allusions, influences, sometimes as visiting characters, even as friends of the poet. Likewise...

Black Ice by Kerry Shawn Keys takes a worthy place within the deep reservoir of his published books. The book's title is a metaphor for a mirror in the title poem in a book probing the black holes of identity, the claustrophobia of self, and managing somehow to transcend both in a work both lucid and dense, cosmic and intimate, and any number of other opposing forces you can slip through the black holes of exquisitely-made poems. The poems in ...

When I read Kerry Shawn Keys' work, I note immediately how much I enjoy his phrasings, the unpredictable turns and twists of a line where each new word comes as surprise, and yet all are deeply satisfying when one re-reads them: "I knew Kathy Leonard in the night-soiled, chiselled guilt" or "tonight, you will drown in the unattended glossary of your dreams" or "ragged seams of coal share the flute-like warble / of a high-C in her voice" or "If...

In his new collection of playful short poems, poet Kerry Keys presents us with the ultimate bestiary. Surrealistic imagery combines with keen word-play in Keys' poems, to tickle, tantalise and tease us beyond rationality into the cartoon world of his wild imagination. Nothing is as it appears in the Keys universe, yet it parallels and satirises reality. These poems are witty and lyrically intense poem-toys, worth repeated readings for their en...

Avant-garde, boom generation poet, translator and international multimedia artist Kerry Shawn Keys presents a new volume of his surrealistic poetry. His poems are imagistic, lyrical vehicles that express Keys' personal observations of the natural world, contrasted to the artificiality of man's world. Keys' work has been praised by Pulitzer Prize winners Gary Snyder and Gerald Stern, among others, as innovative and musical. As a member of the p...

Award winning poet, translator and international multi-media artist Kerry Shawn Keys presents his most recent collection of poetry -- "Transporting". These lyrical poems hypnotise the reader with the rhythm and tonality of their long lines. Imagery, language and cadence meld into a symphony of sound and sight that excites the imagination with its possibilities. Keys' poetry taps into his pastoral roots in the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania and...

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