Jean-Yves Solinga

Broschiertes Buch

Created Realities

Beschreibung

"Created Realities" is Jean-Yves' ninth book of poetry to savor. In it he revisits the fundamental issue of "reality," as created by the artist from fragments of the day-to-day mundane life that we all live and exist within; from pieces of text accidentally read; from long lost memories; from casual conversations or merely witnessed while shopping for tomorrows dinner. The imaginative attenuation between things real and imagined is often microscopically thin but never broken entirely. He again explores humanity's perception of reality within an existentialist view of the absurdity of breathtaking beauty and unspeakable horror as they inhabit the same space and time. In his inimitable style of multilayered, multifaceted poetic images he bring us both nearer to uncomfortable truths in which most would not willingly venture, or to a point of passion or beauty we could not have previously envisioned. While most writers wait for the muse to appear or reveal itself to them, to Jean-Yves every memory, event, spoken word, or visual stimulation has significance and potential, requiring an immediate response. Nothing in his stream of consciousness or, in fact, unconsciousness is irrelevant to the process of creating his poetry.

Autor

Jean-Yves Solinga is a poet of immense ability and range. His poetry is a product and symbolically reflects a life from birth to adulthood of cultural duality and a search for the cool plains of resolution with the past. He came from the heat of Morocco to the cold coastal waters and countryside of New England.His father, a gendarme, mother, sister, and brother had gone through the tragic war years of occupation in Marseille, France. He was then transferred after WWII in 1946 to Sidi Bel Abbès, where Jean-Yves was born in the hospital that serviced the Headquarters of the French Foreign Legion on the periphery of the Sahara in Algeria. The family traveled again with Jean-Yves only a month old, to Salé, just South of Sidi Moussa, in Morocco, where his father was posted. The journey was very difficult for the adults, but Jean-Yves spent most of it comfortably sleeping on the garments in a suitcase. The family settled, and Jean-Yves spent an idyllic childhood in the sun of North Africa. He attended French grammar and secondary schools. His memories of that time are of the joy of being aware of the pleasure of sight; the cocoon of the innocence of youth unconscious of geopolitical matters. His family, having decided to settle in America, sent Jean-Yves, at age 14, ahead alone in order not to miss the start of the school term. Living in New England, he would experience firsthand one of his many future encounters with the freezing cold and snow, which, up to that time, had only been seen on Christmas cards. A new and completely different life began.He had already written poetry by the time of his bachelor's degree and a brief tour of duty in the US Army, after which he began a career teaching French Language, Culture, and Literature in Connecticut schools and colleges. He completed a Masters and then a Ph.D. on North Africa before retiring in 2004, at which time he earnestly concentrated on his writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Red Tree Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9781935656517
• ISBN-10: 1935656511
• Artikelnr.: 49254870