CARSON, Calif., Aug. 2, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Metaphysical poetry is a process whereby the writer tugs upon a force that is liberated up out of the subconscious mind, to that conscious area of imagination where an image of an object can be perceived as something analytical, and where such a category can grow into an idea whose essence is derived from a viewed, existential finality. It is the quantified whole, the stock totality that forms a completed expression that is without a recognizable meaning which reaches into a whirl of descriptive information whose purpose will sometimes move beyond the concentrated effort of the writer. Now, interested readers will get a sampling of this unique brand of poetry with the recent release of a poem collection by poet-thinker J. William Long.
THE POEMS OF A DEAD METAPHYSICIAN (Paperback $20.99; Xlibris Publishing), already available at select bookstores, will injure a reader with the meanings of a mosaic murder, of a crucified dithyramb, of denomination, of a bog that can only be found in a cryptic system of molten, psychological forethought, something which will force a fomentation of idiosyncrasy and simulacrum to terminate, where madness can stand as a pedigree and interpose the like of a witch...of an intonation whose intellectual management leads one to huddle with the icy ideas of a holocaust-house, of an infinity of future forms whose only purpose is to cause the assassination of an asylum and to build a system of what is an institutionalized position of griffin-like creatures: all of whom will serve as the domestic mentors of the futilitarian days to come.
The poems found in this collection present a mordacious point of view, one in which there can be seen at the various levels of axiology -- or moral and ethical systems of evaluation -- verbal paintings whose purpose is to cause the reader to descend down into those vicious, subterranean areas of human culture, where one is driven into the categories of history, literature and psychology, in an effort to first view the actions of the homo psyche and then to valuate these behaviors, each of which is designed to convey an understanding of the several mortal conditions that are essential to everyday existence. This masterful historical fiction is now available at your local bookstore, or you may purchase it online at Xlibris.com.
About the Author
J. William Long was born on the second anniversary of Pearl Harbor day, 1943, in Buffalo, New York. After completing his basic education, Mr. Long served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps. After concluding his military tour of duty, he finished a bachelor's degree in history at Cal Poly Pomona, California, then a master's degree in liberal arts from the University of Southern California in 1980. Mr. Long published his first novel, AJAX, in 1988 and while a primary interest of his has always been the continued study of universal axiology, THE POEMS OF A DEAD METAPHYSICIAN will cause a reader to enter a psychological carrefour, a directional place where one can run away from pathology, or wallow in the verse of such multiple categories.
THE POEMS OF A DEAD METAPHYSICIAN * by J. William Long.
Publication Date: April 18, 2006
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